{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLUENZA.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not think that it would be wise if the people would not talk so much about it and think so much about it, because we must remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "rong. We hear it said, parrot-like, that prices must be got down, that there must be economy in this, that and the other, but to-day I heard the Minister saying how prices had increased, and the statement received the approval of Members on the other side. The attempt to bring prices down means that all the ordinary amenities of houses are to be criminated, that bathrooms are to be communal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": " but people have a tendency of using the words \"private enterprise\" in a way which, I confess, I find exasperating. The hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. Hicks) believes that there is only one form of private enterprise which is tolerable, and it is the organisation of the trade unions. His ideal is, apparently, a system of society where the State shall control everything except the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not wholly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I am not speaking about the building trade employers; I am speaking about superseding them, and I submit that a distinction between public and private enterprise is that in public enterprise the initiative rests with the publicly elected authority and in private enterprise it rests with the private individual; and wherever the initiative has rested with the latter, housing construction has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.93.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seventy-nine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)", "preceding_text": ". Conditions are growing worse because of the policy that has been hitherto followed, and with a change of that policy the whole of the housing outlook will improve. The right hon. Gentleman also referred to our committee, and wondered why my right hon. Friend had not set it up before. The right hon. Gentleman was a member of a Government who appointed at least 75 Royal Commissions and committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.120.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary suggest honestly that no one in the House has any knowledge of slum clearance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.125.4", "colnum": "125", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "riend the Minister has pointed out repeatedly, it is a concentration of municipal housing efforts. The hon. Member also doubted whether the Government proposals would lead to the provision of houses at a rent within the means of the C class tenant. If the Opposition will not believe me, whom will they believe? If I put into the witness box a witness hostile to the Government will they believe him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trust.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": " in order that interest under a former loan should be liquidated. I do not think that that criticism can be considered valid, for His Majesty's Government would plainly be failing in its duty if it invited Parliament to ratify one loan without ensuring that the previous loan was to be met; and it is that which we have done. The interest on that loan has been, and, I trust, will be faithfully paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very clever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "stria to pay interest on the loan at the Austrian bank rate which, in round figures, has varied between 6 per cent, and 10 per cent. The loan mentioned in this Bill will now be raised on the full credit of the British Government at somewhere, presumably, between 3½ and 4 per cent. That will be an advantage to Austria as well as an advantage to this country, which does not lose a single penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-07", "file": "debates1933-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6c730767f90cddbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I feel sure I shall not be exaggerating when I say that the House has just listened to one of the most sordid stories of international finance it has ever heard. I do not claim to understand high finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-07a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give us the reason why the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs yesterday said that the Government had collected more than the amount of the Annuities outstanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give us the reason why the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs yesterday said that the Government had collected more than the amount of the Annuities outstanding—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"]. He led the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "particular section of a tribe, has a right over a bit of land. Nothing could be more futile than to put on to this Board of trustees who have to administer the whole in the interests of all tribes a representative of one tribe. Anyone who knows anything about the matter—the Select Committee drew attention to it—realises that it would be asking for trouble if you did anything like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "an is divorced from the land. There is still land enough in Kenya for the natives to live on their own, and while they have enough land there will be no unemployment problem. That is why the long history of British administration in Kenya is one long struggle to solve the labour problem, to get labour at a reasonably cheap rate by taking away the land so that the natives have to work for a master.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "to take place through the medium of some private company, will secure such a return from the company as will enable them adequately to look after the health, the sanitation and the educational and other social needs of the community. In view of the fact that we have had so short a discussion I should be very glad if the hon. Member opposite could see his way not to press this Motion to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " and in particular to secure that in any future decision educated and responsible opinion shall be fully taken into consideration. I am afraid that this evening I am breaking a resolution which I thought fit to make for myself that during the next few months the voice of the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank) should be heard rather less in this assembly than in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "much for the economy aspect of the matter. The difficulties with which we are faced are of course not covered by any historical account of the proceedings up to date, and I am sure the House as a whole will be more interested to see what is the present attitude of the Government towards this Motion and the proposals which it brings forward. In the first place, we intend to accept the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "LANCASHIRE COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Member does not follow my argument. It is not a question of the standard of living in Lancashire; it is a question of the devaluation of the pound, which does not necessarily have any reaction, so far as the standard of living in Lancashire is concerned. But the effect of the cutting off of the Lancashire market, of course, is one of the inevitable results of trade restrictions all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-08", "file": "debates1933-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2dbd2166e97afac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "LANCASHIRE COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "But a great deal of Lancashire cotton used to go to Java.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-08a.317.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.329.8", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The reply goes back to October. We have passed through one of the worst winters ever experienced and therefore the conditions are now worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.329.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I only noticed the Motion this morning after this programme was made out. We must get the London Traffic Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.SKELTON", "preceding_text": " wage-earners who are in overcrowded conditions is the view expressed by the Economy Committee set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year. That committee was composed of men with a very wide experience of local government in Scotland, and the importance of their recommendation with regard to continuing the subsidy for low-paid wage-earners in overcrowded conditions will not be challenged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.393.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That was 60 years ago, and they are still increasing !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "in a part of that area which you know, very well, I am quite sure. My bedfellow was a bit of a humorous Irishman, and I remember how he described the animals that sometimes infested our beds— namely, bugs. He said that the houses were built on bugs and were still being occupied; they were 50,000,000 strong with drummers and band boys! I do not know how many drummers and band boys there were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ght well have been introducing a Bill of this character. The right hon. Member for Caithness knows quite well, as do those who sit with him, who consider themselves as beings apart from the National Government to-day, that they were carried in on the wave of enthusiasm that elected this Government. Although they came into this House as a result of the lies upon which the election was fought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-09", "file": "debates1933-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ffd987a75949f3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "easoned Amendment. The Labour party failed to vote against that Bill and I think rightly, reasoning as they reasoned. I do not think they meant to oppose the subsidy for the people, but that was the position they took up. That Bill was introduced in connection with housing. I represent one of the densest possible areas in the whole of Scotland, and only 150 new houses have been built in the place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-09a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ing in connection with the man's employment, which is much wider than the old definition of \"arising out of or in the course of.\" The hon. Member pointed out, also, that under the Bill the first three days are to be taken into consideration for compensation in all cases, but I do not think he pointed out that the income limit is raised from £350 under the present Act to £500 in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "he man shall get compensation, whether he is still entitled to compensation or whether he is malingering. I am not making a general charge. Everybody knows that the number of faked claims are few and far between, but they exist. Everyone who has had anything to do with the administration of workmen's compensation knows that claims are made time and time again by men who never have had an accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. The actions of the board cannot be called in question. They can call him if they please, and that involves the idea that they can leave him out if they so please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.548.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about the Umpire?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "e brought under the Bill, and neither a Minister, nor Parliament, nor any of the courts of the land would have any means whatsoever of checking his actions. It is a touching confession of the faith of hon. Members opposite in the probity and humanity of the legal profession that they claim that it is giving a square deal to the workman to make a legal gentleman the sole arbiter of their destinies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.577.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "passes into law, but this particular umpire is not allowed to observe legal precedent and can put upon the instructions which Parliament gives any in- terpretation which he thinks fit. The analogy of the hon. and learned Gentleman opposite as to the Tariff Board is a false one. The Tariff Board itself by its own action does not affect the future or the pocket of one single citizen of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-10", "file": "debates1933-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3e6be2f3473eed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.581.4", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": " the fair and meritorious one. But I would remind hon. Members that legal precedents have their uses as well as their disadvantages. It is only by legal precedents, by the interpretation which has been built up through a long history of court decisions, that the House of Commons when passing a Bill through its various stages can tell what meaning is going to be attached to the words which it uses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-10a.581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-13", "file": "debates1933-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55f246ccff1f5701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-13a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my right hon. Friend for his indication that, no doubt, this particular body will be consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-13a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-13", "file": "debates1933-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55f246ccff1f5701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-13a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An Englishman !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "I would like to supplement that question by asking if the hon. and learned Member is correct, because the definition of \"Member\" says: being a civilian employed in connection with the visiting force, entered into his engagement outside the United Kingdom. That surely means that if a British subject entered into an engagement outside the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-13a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": ". It has been improved since then, but not enough. The Bill to-day bears far closer resemblance to the original Bill than the hon. Member for West Bermondsey (Dr. Salter) gave it credit for. Its parentage is known. I can imagine this little Bill toddling along to its natural parent, the right hon. Gentle- man who favoured the House with his presence under the Gallery during the long Debates on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "ur proposals would aim at protection against monopoly, freedom for enterprise and reasonable competition to present stagnation. This Bill falls very far short of those ideals. The monopoly which will be set up is undoubted. Stagnation is likely to result in the long run, not at once I freely admit. The board to be appointed will consist of very distinguished people, men whose names are well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.854.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has mentioned my name during his speech. Will he permit me to say one or two things in reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "The Metropolitan Boroughs Committee, at their meeting a few days ago, practically unanimously, I believe with two dissents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "The Metropolitan Boroughs Committee, at their meeting a few days ago, practically unanimously, I believe with two dissents—[ Interruption. ] Is not that practically unanimous?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "That is not the point at all. I say that in the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Committee, which represents the Metropolitan Boroughs in the same way as this House represents the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nsation, but was merely a quotation of one of the stocks. After the pleasant things that he said about me, I conclude that he will be able to read his own notes, with difficulty, but that he does not understand the White Paper, because it is clear that he was not answering my question in any way whatever. He is not here now, which is very often the case with those who interrupt other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e neither being driven into the ranks of the Socialist party nor are we resting in the tents of the reactionary forces. The hon. Gentleman opposite said that nothing but public ownership and complete control would ever satisfy the Socialist party. I am not surprised then that this Bill does not satisfy him because it is certainly a long way from providing for public ownership and complete control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " that he had said so in his speech—that the solution of the problem is the solution contained in the two Bills which are called the Co-ordination Bills. The Co-ordination Bills entirely failed. They failed to satisfy anybody in the House for the very good reason that they left out that element of compulsion which the Blue Report described as essential to the creation of any proper authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "hich are called the Co-ordination Bills. The Co-ordination Bills entirely failed. They failed to satisfy anybody in the House for the very good reason that they left out that element of compulsion which the Blue Report described as essential to the creation of any proper authority. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] The Coordination Bills had their opportunity,, and they failed for the reason I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the hon. Lady refers to when she says that it has never been made clear to the House. I am not sure what it is that has never been made clear to the House. As long ago as November, the broad outline of the financial structure of the Bill was made plain to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "I am not charging the hon. Gentleman with anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "s for this reason that I ask that the Order shall not be passed tonight, because quite soon the Kent County Council scheme for the rearrangement of areas will go through and then will be the time when the people who live in the district and who are affected by the Sunday opening will have the right, which they have not now, to vote on this question. To show how extraordinary is the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.968.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-14", "file": "debates1933-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8a99c36e3f82fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "he Government could not do that. What I meant was that we had no power to hold the Order over pending a reorganisation which may take place in a few weeks or a few months. That is different from withholding it to suit the convenience of the House of Commons, and, if it is the general view of the House that the Order should be further considered, I am prepared to move the adjournment of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-14a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "SCHEMES FOR UNEMPLOYED.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on or get out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "word \"urges\" in the Motion. I think it was never more necessary than now for supporters of the National Government to urge upon that Government to do something. After 16 months, during which the National Government have done nothing except to make things worse and increase unemployment, I am glad that the supporters of the Government are coming along now and urging the Government to get a move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "SCHEMES FOR UNEMPLOYED.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ew that the Government should not spend any more money to assist the local authorities in that way then he ought to tell the House what the Government are prepared to do. One of the Prime Minister's late colleagues Lord Snowden has been urging that owing to this policy there is going to be no help for slum clearance, for improved water supplies, for land drainage, for smallholdings and allotments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "SCHEMES FOR UNEMPLOYED.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s anyone doubt that you have to clear all the slums sooner or later? Then why not do it now? Surely, the right hon. Gentleman does not think that his scheme is going to clear all these slums. You cannot do it. The very simile that he used in his speech is appropriate. He has been feeding up an old crock of a horse, to put it in front of a great scheme to clear the slums. It must have petrol in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "SCHEMES FOR UNEMPLOYED.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Go on with your speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BALDWIN-WEBB", "preceding_text": "rose in his place and claimed to move, \"That the Question be now put,\" but Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER withheld his assent and declined then to put that Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "TOTALISATORS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Employés !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "the interests of all those who will be affected by their final decision, he they owners, employés, or frequenters of such tracks. If the Motion had been worded to include the community as a whole and the well-being of the State as well, then I still do not think I would have criticised it. But when the mover and seconder confine their attention to these persons— owners, employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "TOTALISATORS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "gue that we should secure legislation on this issue alone in order to clarify the situation, but I am not very much impressed by that argument. We must thank the mover of the Motion for clarifying the legal position as he did, but I think that it is understood by everybody that there would be no dog-racing tracks in this country at all were it not for the incentive of profits from the totalisator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1104.4", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "TOTALISATORS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Am I not right in putting it the other way, that as soon as totalisators became established on a profit basis on dog-racing tracks, the tracks multiplied enormously merely because of the profits gained from totalisators?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1104.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "TOTALISATORS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "preceding_text": " or two observations on those recommendations, and particularly on the basis on which they were founded. In the first place, I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that any unbiased person reading the Interim Report of the Royal Commission would come to the conclusion that it is special pleading from beginning to end, and that it can in no wise be termed an unbiased and unprejudiced argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-15", "file": "debates1933-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "cf182d083f2c7408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "TOTALISATORS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to interrupt the hon. and gallant Gentleman, but he has made a statement. How docs he know all this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-15a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1172.5", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Could the Chancellor of the Exchequer tell us what is the revenue derived from the Super-tax due to the excess profits made by the brewery trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the support of the Lord President of the Council and his late colleagues, who set us a splendid example during the last Parliament on how to pursue a Government on so vital a matter as unemployment. I think that almost every week there was either a Motion on the question of unemployment or a Motion of Censure on the Government in one form or another. As conditions are very much worse to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "a meeting in London the other night by university professors who came down to deplore the fact that now there is no room for men trained in the universities, and they did not know what occupation they were going to follow. The two right hon. Gentlemen, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Labour, can add also those by your cynical, your brutal administration of transitional payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " not to talk sob stuff. They are merely existing. That is the statement which is made by the representative of the British Sailors' Society at Lowe soft. Then the University Settlement, Shire hump ton, said: We found that mothers had cut up their underclothing for children. That is what the woman who gave up her food for her children did, and, having done so, died, and people can only sneer at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EX-CHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EX-CHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "otions of this kind have been moved by successive Oppositions against successive Governments in successive Parliaments since the beginning of the depression. There have been so many of them that we have lost count of the number and all have been characterised by certain common features—first the ascription by the Opposition to the Government of the sole responsibility for unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "considered that the question of the compulsory limitation of the hours of work to 40 a week had not yet been sufficiently examined to warrant a definite conclusion being reached, and that therefore his Government were opposed to proceeding at the present time with the project of a draft convention. He pressed for a comprehensive inquiry into the whole question before any definite action was taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " keep our currency from going out of control. Therefore, the first aim of the Government is to restore confidence. Can anybody say that we have not already to a large extent succeeded in that aim? The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) who, after delivering a speech an hour long in the Debate yesterday, has not thought it convenient to come here to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good excuse for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "And the cheer of assent which he now gives to my observation confirms my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not waste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ve so many millions spent on roads, useful to the nation, which ought to be built. You have so many millions of pounds represented in harbors, water supplies, drainage systems. All these things are valuable to the nation. You cannot regard that expenditure as mere waste. The only expenditure during that time which has been mere waste, economically, is the expenditure on the dole to the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "overnment are going clean against the economics of an age of abundance. With regard to the suggestion that all we can do is to keep pegging away, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs said that the workers were quiet at present. The Government will be very unwise if they presume that that quiet is going on all the time, year after year. We are an extraordinarily enduring race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I must say my ability is limited to reading ordinary English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1324.2", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Austrian Protocol.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer present. In view of the fact that we are spending £4,500,000 to fill the coffers of the Bank of England, owing to its injudicious loan to Austria, we have a right to expect the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be present. I advise my hon. Friends not to press the Financial Secretary too hardly. We must make our points on Monday, because it is an important matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Austrian Protocol.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "I was not in any way criticising you, Captain Bourne; I was criticising the hon. Member for Bridgeton. I should never criticise the Chair in any respect. As, however, this is a very important debate, and as a large Division can be expected, I think our criticisms are very well deployed, and, if it is in Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1326.5", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Austrian Protocol.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "erable discussion and great resentment throughout the country because it was said that certain banks, in lending money to Great Britain at a difficult time, attached certain political conditions, but the practice of Governments attaching political conditions to loans is very grave indeed, because it focuses against the lending Government the political resentment of the people who borrow the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-16", "file": "debates1933-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "64e12066f3ea9437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Austrian Protocol.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Australians!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ou must put your house in order. You have certain obligations to the City. You have borrowed certain monies. You must revise your Budget. You must reduce your outgoings and your social services in order that the moneylender may be paid on his bond.\" But we escaped. The Australians did not say, \"Great Britain is a Shylock; Great Britain is asking the Australians to reduce their standard of living.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-16a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-17", "file": "debates1933-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "a69c2d6cb76eb5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS (MARKING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ent regulations with regard to our own production and I think that British consumers are entitled to this protection—namely, that they shall know where their foodstuffs come from in order to be able to judge their quality for themselves. I came across a paragraph recently in the \"Daily Telegraph,\" a perfectly reputable newspaper, and if I may say so one of the best newspapers in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-17", "file": "debates1933-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "a69c2d6cb76eb5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "BACTERIA IN CHEAP TINNED FOODS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "\"The presence of bacteria in large quantities in tinned Russian herrings—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-17", "file": "debates1933-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "a69c2d6cb76eb5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "BACTERIA IN CHEAP TINNED FOODS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "Yes. The world was prosperous. It was a moment when the world was reducing tariffs", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-17a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1441.7", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the position taken up by the Minister violates the constitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1441.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "s bolstering up a private company that has made a bad investment; it will render more difficult the American Debt revision, and it involves interference in the domestic affairs of another nation. I object to all that. I do not propose to move the rejection of the Bill at this stage, but if any hon. Member does move its rejection, and there is a Division, I shall go into the Lobby against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1488.3", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we are not! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "s salaries, but when Austria's banker comes along, they must obey and pay him. I think that is very bad policy from a Government that is boasting of its determination to hold the scales evenly between all classes. There is one further point. The victims of some of your ill-contrived economies, of which you were all boasting so strongly a few months ago, but which you are regretful about now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1491.5", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Nor any other time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUSTRIAN LOAN GUARANTEE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "lions of gold. The ordinary man-in-the-street does not quite understand where we are. As the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Molton (Mr. Lambert) said, if the Government are going to carry the baby of the Bank of England whenever they make a bad deal, we shall never get that change in the government of the Bank of England which I consider highly desirable in the interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-20", "file": "debates1933-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fe904ba45dc33871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "his. Men come down to this House of Commons and lay down laws for the unemployed—I do not object—they lay down strict measures, they lay down the enforcement of law and decree, and they state that certain things are to be done, and if those things are not done, people are dealt with in a very severe fashion. Presiding over that office to-day—everyone in this House knows it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-20a.1532.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-21", "file": "debates1933-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4241198db3e93f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Or China.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the statement which he has just made to the House is to be interpreted as meaning that His Majesty's Government do not propose to take immediate steps to prevent the export from this country of munitions of war to, or for the use of Japan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1600.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-21", "file": "debates1933-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4241198db3e93f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why Japan?", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "e answer given by the right hon. Gentleman, I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the refusal of His Majesty's Government, in view of the operations of war begun in Jehol this morning, to take immediate steps to prevent the export from this country of munitions of war to, or for the use of Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-21", "file": "debates1933-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4241198db3e93f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT [GENERAL EXCHEQUER CONTRIBUTIONS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "grant has increased six times. The point that we are now discussing is the unallocated grant. It is used for several purposes. It relieves the burden which would otherwise fall on the ratepayers in respect of all the other services. It is a general grant-in-aid for all purposes. I think it is much too large. I should like to see it cut. We are not voting £5,300,000, but some £43,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-21", "file": "debates1933-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "4241198db3e93f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1706.4", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS, DURHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was the same before!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "mally in insurable employment. He decides that he is not going to fight his case—that he is going to lose it— and he then becomes chargeable to the public assistance committee as an able-bodied person. If he does not fight his case, he and his family will possibly be better treated that if he fought it. In many case it will be to the man's interest to become chargeable to the Poor Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-21a.1706.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-22", "file": "debates1933-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f05d10c8064723cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (WOMEN SUFFRAGE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": " supplement his reply by saying whether I am correctly informed that all the Jewish councils, when questioned as to the proposed municipal ordinance, expressed their willingness to see women vote on the same terms as men; and, further, whether it is not the case that in Turkey and in India Moslem women are permitted to enjoy political rights; and in that case do not His Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-22", "file": "debates1933-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f05d10c8064723cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1784.3", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "REFORMS IN INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman claims to be a great expert on India. I suggest that we should not regard anyone as a great expert on this country who had not visited it for 30 years and who had not even taken the trouble to meet one representative Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1784.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-22", "file": "debates1933-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f05d10c8064723cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "REFORMS IN INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "efore the White Paper has been presented and thoroughly examined by the Joint Select Committee. Any of us who are loyal supporters of the Government feel that we shall want to subject that White Paper to the most severe and meticulous scrutiny, particularly in regard to safe guards. I want to refer to what was said by my right hon. Friend as to a decision having been taken in December, 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-22", "file": "debates1933-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f05d10c8064723cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " H. Samuel) nor to the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, nor to the right Hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury), to ask who should be chosen to sit on the advisory committee, therefore the party opposite will have nothing to do with it— an amazing attitude to take up. If this committee is to advise the corporation, it is for the corporation to set up its own committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-22a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-23", "file": "debates1933-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b8aa1ce64ce1ff84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN PAY (TEMPORARY ABATEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SMILES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SMILES", "preceding_text": "commercial houses. I could cite many other instances to prove the point that I have made. We want the very best men that the universities can give us, particularly Oxford and Cambridge. We know about the resolution which was passed at Oxford a week or two ago, but I do not think any of us pay much attention to it. I understand that there are some 27 ex-presidents of the Oxford Union in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-23", "file": "debates1933-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b8aa1ce64ce1ff84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": " for a moment that the Germans, Norsemen and so on will stop fishing. Of course they will not. They have been used to doing nothing else, and they will go on fishing. The result will be that, instead of the fish coming to this country to be cured and made presentable by British labour and then sent abroad, it will be sent straight from these other countries, and we shall lose the trade altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-23", "file": "debates1933-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b8aa1ce64ce1ff84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": " terms to other countries, but they enacted some sort of regulation by which they reduced the duty on herrings of a certain size. That acted by way of preference to Norway, because Norwegian herrings are large and coarse. In my view, that is getting behind the provisions of the treaty, and I hope the Government will take the matter up very seriously indeed and see whether they cannot do something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-23", "file": "debates1933-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b8aa1ce64ce1ff84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "gs of a certain size. That acted by way of preference to Norway, because Norwegian herrings are large and coarse. In my view, that is getting behind the provisions of the treaty, and I hope the Government will take the matter up very seriously indeed and see whether they cannot do something. [ Interruption. ] I am very glad to think the right hon. Gentleman still believes he will be able to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-23", "file": "debates1933-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b8aa1ce64ce1ff84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "he case well and hon. Members also know it. It seems to me absolutely preposterous that foreign trawlers can come and fish with impunity in the Moray Firth, whereas if home trawlers attempt to do so the skipper or the man in charge is immediately fined or put into prison. I want the right hon. Gentleman to say whether he can tell us what the Government propose to do about it. The fishermen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-23a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " if there are any, that we are under to any Government in certain eventualities, and make it quite clear that in this matter we are not actuated, as some people are insinuating that we ought to be, by motives of opposition to the spread of Communism either in China or anywhere else in Asia. In our view, it has nothing to do with the rest of the world whether China, or Japan, goes Communist or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he position is. The long delay has enabled the Japanese Government to consolidate their conquests in Manchuria and to get a jumping off place further into China. We ought to have had some more speedy method. of dealing with the matter. If the League is to be effective in future, she must move more speedily or, as a consequence of delay, a war may be over long before the League comes to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Yes, it was during a discussion raised by Lord Ponsonby. As an ordinary person I should have imagined that the invasion of another country across a great stretch of the sea was an act of war and did not need much investigation as to whether it was right or wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "om 1918 to 1922, the military forces of Japan occupied this province, and made an abortive attempt to separate it from Russia. To-day Mr. Matsuoka, who was the Japanese Minister at Geneva, has stated that in Japan there are two trends of thought. One regards the Soviet Union as a menace to Japan and thinks that Japan should strike at the Soviet Union before the potential menace fully materialises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "f attitude of mind some people have towards war even in these days. Is not a Chinese man or woman as valuable as we are ourselves? Is it matter for a joke that 10,000 of them are destroyed? What becomes of all the talk about the comradeship of nations, the brotherhood of nations and all the rest of it 7 On behalf of my friends, I want to press on the Government that we want action to be taken now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The American nation and the American Government will, I am quite sure, do what they think right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cotton\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cannot define \"arms, ammunition and war equipment,\" the War Office, the Air Ministry and the Naval authorities can easily advise the Government. It does not need a layman like me to advise them. They have plenty of experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " that was his view, and I am sure that it is the view of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), because in a speech which he made in London on last Friday week he said that he desired to say a kindly word for Japan. He said: I hope that we shall try in England to understand a little of the position of Japan, an ancient State with the highest State sense of national honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " as well. The Debate has been a very interesting one, and, I think, has been striking because of the almost unanimous support for the League of Nations and the action which it has already taken, and also because of the demand which the House has put forward for united action in the future. Indeed, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) is almost as isolated as Japan —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are wrong !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I think, accept those findings as being the best findings the world can produce. There is no better machinery available, and it is idle for us to try to thresh through it all again. But it is important to notice that the findings of the Assembly of the League of Nations are based upon a series of breaches of faith by Japan. No one who has read the documents can be in any doubt whatever about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ake it clear that the embargo against Japan is desired by this Committee, and I am sure that the Committee is speaking on behalf of the vast mass of the people of this country and the vast mass of the people of the world. When it comes to an agreement between the different nations, then I hope the Foreign Secretary will tell us that that agreement will be based upon an embargo against Japan alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And set up a National Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "e of Nations, or what we were going to do to prevent Japan fighting against her. Why not? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Personally I am very glad indeed that Japan has come in without fear and has said what she is going to do. The Japanese at least have a policy. It is to settle one part of the world and they are going to settle Manchuria. Of that I feel perfectly convinced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " settle one part of the world and they are going to settle Manchuria. Of that I feel perfectly convinced. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And set up a National Government.\"] No, they will not set up a, National Government. They will set up a beneficient autocracy, which is possibly the best form of rule that you can get, as long as the autocrats are in touch with the people and know what the people really want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " the country. I must say that he did not draw the picture against Japan. The Lytton Report may have leaned to the side of China to a certain extent. I read the report care- fully. I thought it was rather biased, but it did give us the feeling that Japan was not getting quite a fair deal. Then the matter came up before the League of Nations. We are all getting rather tired of the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-27", "file": "debates1933-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "6128a8ead267f5a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "d, but it did give us the feeling that Japan was not getting quite a fair deal. Then the matter came up before the League of Nations. We are all getting rather tired of the League of Nations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, a great many of us are. I am certain that my hon. Friends above the Gangway on this side are not tired of it but I can tell them that a great many of the people of the country are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-27a.151.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where is the point of Order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. A colleague of the Minister misled the House—I am certain quite innocently—on this day week, when he gave a reply indicating that no information was available with regard to the negotiations on wages having broken down. We are merely asking whether it is not the case that such information was at the Minister's disposal on that date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.167.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.187.7", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Rothschild!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman satisfied in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.216.5", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Discontinuance of certain subsidies under 13 & 14 Geo. 5. C. 24 and 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cost per house?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "preceding_text": "Under the Chamberlain and Wheatley Acts, I presume.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.216.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Discontinuance of certain subsidies under 13 & 14 Geo. 5. C. 24 and 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that private enterprise has built houses and is letting them at rents much lower than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.218.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Discontinuance of certain subsidies under 13 & 14 Geo. 5. C. 24 and 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What is the date?", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will do me the justice of believing that I have such a letter in my hand, which I shall be most happy to show him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Discontinuance of certain subsidies under 13 & 14 Geo. 5. C. 24 and 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35.)", "cue_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": "nd his boy came along and they put up the picture rail and the skirting board again. I then said: \"The backyard gate is an inch too long and will not shut.\" The joiner replied: \"Oh, I cannot touch that. It is an outside joiner's job.\" I found when I talked to the men that they were only allowed to place so much wallpaper per day. have respect for trade unions. In fact, I am a member of one myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power of Minister to reimburse part of losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "anxious that we shall make a success of this new idea in housing for the sake of the people, must combine with us in being anxious not to clip the wings of private enterprise more than is absolutely necessary. Any question that you are to have a rigid rule as regards rents, or any rigid figures, is against the theory upon which we are working to-night. Private enterprise is a very delicate matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power of Minister to reimburse part of losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "judge as between free rents and controlled rents, we are entitled to look round the country and see what has been done in the way of housing in the last 100 years, first of all by private enterprise and secondly by municipal enterprise. I guarantee that any hon. Member who makes an investigation into the two systems and their results, will indubitably come down on the side of municipal enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power of Minister to reimburse part of losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liberty !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ill come indubitably to the conclusion that municipal enterprise is better if one wants decent housing conditions. The hon. Member said that this very delicate flower can only be nurtured provided that you give the maximum of profit, and that, therefore, you have to see that there is no means of regulating the rents at all. This flower can only thrive in a soil which has for its nourishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power of Minister to reimburse part of losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rd, too, can come to Poplar and see where we have built by municipal enterprise homes that did cost £1,100. They cost that immediately after the War when the Government, instead of taking control of prices, shovelled out the money to contractors and others who became very rich out of it. It was not the fault of the municipalities but of those in control nationally, who did not control prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-02-28", "file": "debates1933-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a384b763900ca5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power of Minister to reimburse part of losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "What I said was that hon. Gentlemen have already got nine-tenths of what they want. The only thing that they have not got is the bathroom. I agree that we should all like to see them provided everywhere, but there are cases where you cannot do it. I could give one case in a rural area where you could not give a bath, because, if you did, you would have no water to put into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-02-28a.332.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Minister has seen the report in today's Press that the German Government intend to carry out a purge of its political opponents, following upon the alleged attempt upon the life of the Chancellor, and will he make some inquiry as to whether there is any truth in those reports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "EXCESSIVE TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOULTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not an earthly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOULTON", "preceding_text": "nciple and as a barrier against the peril as represented by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite? I feel sure that I shall have the support of the right hon. Gentleman and his followers for this Motion, for, after all, it embraces one of the oldest and most cherished Liberal principles—retrenchment and reform. I wonder if it is any use my appealing to those who sit on the opposite benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "EXCESSIVE TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "e problems better than he. Many of us remember the time in 1923 when he took his political courage in his hands in order to bring about a new order of things he considered essential and which is now accepted. His proposals were refused by the people then, but they have now been accepted. Just as the tariffs for which he fought then are forming the backbone of our return to prosperity to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "EXCESSIVE TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "t I notice that the dividends paid in the industry as a whole, during the past seven or eight years, have varied between 17 per cent. and 14.7 per cent. If those figures are right they prove, I suggest, that the industry is well able to stand a good deal in the way of a reduction of beer prices before the workman, who is generally supposed by hon. Members in this House to be in want of beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.422.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "EXCESSIVE TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DINGLE FOOT", "preceding_text": "s that the Budget had to be balanced. Now the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead and the hon. Member who moved this Motion come along and say, \"Undo what was done in 1931; unbalance your Budget; it does not matter any longer about having a balanced Budget; unbalance your national accounts, not in order to restore those cuts, but for the sole and exclusive benefit of the direct taxpayer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But it is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "There was then no system of licences. That system did not come in until later. The case which is sometimes attempted to be made against the National Government, that the decline in our export of coal is due to tariffs and retaliation, is a case which will not bear a moment's examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "also on the proper occasion. At the moment I want to deal with the minimum price, which, I may remind hon. Members opposite, affects the wages of the miner. That is a fact too often forgotten on the other side of the House. There is far too great a tendency for hon. Gentlemen opposite to talk as though nobody but themselves knew anything about the mining industry or had any interest in the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.456.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " to give any evidence to justify the statement that he has now made, that the wages in Scotland are higher than they are in any other part of the country? May I further call his attention to the fact that, because of the black-legging tendencies of the Scottish coalowners, they have to work a considerable number more days per year than in any other district in the country. Take the day wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.481.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-01", "file": "debates1933-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "692c24b670342192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "and 1932. In the case he quoted, the case of the Lothian Coal Company, notices were issued. I took some personal interest in it, and I saw the owners concerned. The hon. Member knows quite well that 300,000 tons were first allocated, and then an additional 150,000 tons. I took the trouble to follow the thing up in regard to both West Fife and East Fife, and in regard to Lothian, and I found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-01a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for having raised that point and I will deal with it, but the point at the moment is this —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ee seconds, I will turn to the right hon. Gentleman's question. Perhaps it would satisfy hon. Members and check their amusement if I deal with the point now. The moment that the Labour Government took office one of the first problems with which they tried to deal was the problem of the Washington Convention. Sir William Jowitt spent a month with his coat off, so to speak, dealing with the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No 1\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows as well as I do that what the Prime Minister had in mind and what he understood this Question to mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.599.5", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "In my submission to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, this appeal made by the other side completely misinterprets both what the Prime Minister obviously meant and what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.599.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear !", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes. That will be most appropriate to the discussion which we are having to-day.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.600.9", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman has no intention of mis- leading the House, but he has only given a portion of the reply, because he has not read the original answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.600.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They elected you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": " which members of the household are earning, ascertainment of income for man, wife and two adults, the equivalent present rate is 30s. and the Government ask for a rate of 23s. 3d. It is right to bring these facts to the attention of the House because they show a very remarkable outburst of responsible and sober opinion in a town which is not accustomed to take wild or extreme courses of any kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not stick to Newcastle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "nks of industry are closed, and on the workshop gates we read \"No hands need apply.\" Yet we are importing from foreign countries £428,000,000 worth of materials and food that we could produce at home. Are Lancashire Members who represent the cotton industry aware that Chinese and Japanese goods are being dumped into Manchester and Liverpool throwing thousands of Lancashire people out of work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "s are being dumped into Manchester and Liverpool throwing thousands of Lancashire people out of work? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not stick to Newcastle?\"] I do not wish to stick to Newcastle, for the obvious reason that I represent a London constituency but I happen to know Newcastle better than some of the Newcastle Members. The man who knows London is generally a provincial and not a Londoner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "In view of your opinion, Sir, I will withdraw the statement. We have been told by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that we can hope for no improvement with regard to unemployment under 10 years, or words to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ction in dealing with unemployment, but I say that if the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues criticise the Government on the figures we are entitled to reply with a statement of their own record. We are entitled to assume that the hon. Gentlemen who are sitting on the Opposition Benches are serious and responsible opponents of the Government, and that they are presumably the alternative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I was in the House when the Prime Minister spoke, and I have a very clear impression of what happened. The Prime Minister was asked Question 46 by the hon. Member for Spennymoor (Mr. Batey), and said there was to be a Debate to-day upon the question and that would provide an opportunity to raise those points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.665.6", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hitler ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "same time, all those people who have been in insurance but who are no longer employable should not be a burden on the State. Let me turn to another subject. I have just been in Germany, and, by the kindness of the German Minister of Labour, I was allowed an interpreter to take me round a good many of the labour exchanges. They have some things in Germany which I should like to see in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.665.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.675.7", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "I do not mind my hon. Friend putting his point of view, but I understand that there is a great difference between the laws of the two countries in this respect, and he is speaking from the Scottish point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.675.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-02", "file": "debates1933-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbcecb9c7af3e858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "May I point out that if that circular which was sent out to the English bodies was to apply generally, the same law would have applied in Scotland, but accordinz to the statement of my hon. Friend the Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) it did not apply in Scotland, and therefore the law in Scotland must have been different from the law in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-02a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-03", "file": "debates1933-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "84d250bfaa4683b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-03a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) ACT (1912) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "t to find out, and I can assure the House that it is no easy task. The task is so difficult that months of elaborate investigation would have to elapse in order to find out what would be the cost to the industry. I do not think that I should be overstating the case if I said that if the Bill became law it would add anything from £8,000,000 to £10,000,000 to the wage bill in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-03a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-03", "file": "debates1933-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "84d250bfaa4683b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-03a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) ACT (1912) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us have a vote on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to discuss the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-03a.778.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES (DISCUSSIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "What are people outside to think when the House of Commons cannot discuss these important questions and when we are shelved off month after month and told to wait, Meanwhile people are starving. I want to know what we exist for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.806.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.891.4", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power o f Minister to reimburse part o f losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "None at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "preceding_text": "Is there any reason why Members of the Opposition should object to this information being given by the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power o f Minister to reimburse part o f losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. GILLETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You walked across.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "ole subsidy is too rapid and that it should have been reduced. That is quite open to argument, but. until you had got that out of the way, you could not have concentrated upon the slum clearance schemes which the Government now propose. It is not always possible to see so far ahead as 18 months. For instance, we do not know the exact time when it is advisable to walk across the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power o f Minister to reimburse part o f losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "t to know. The municipality will no longer be able to deal with these matters, and the Minister thinks that the enterprise of private individuals is going to meet the situation. I am convinced that the Bill is of no use whatever in regard to the housing of the people. We were gratuitously insulted by the hon. Member for Hulme (Sir J. Nall). I do not expect to get very much manners from Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power o f Minister to reimburse part o f losses sustained under guarantees to building and other societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the public house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "ate. The hon. Member for the Scotland division of Liverpool (Mr. Logan) is to be congratulated on having raised a completely new point which was a rather difficult thing to do at the end of a Debate lasting over several days. He asked what about the satellite towns? He asked if private enterprise was to build 1,000 houses what we were going to do about the church, the chapel, the shop, the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.949.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-06", "file": "debates1933-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "f51429dbf7b4ef3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Transfer of jurisdiction over certain channels to Ouse Board and 7'rent Board.)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Well, do not say it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Surely, Clause 1 is virtually the whole of the Bill, and, unless one can talk about the intentions of the Measure under Clause 1, it is most difficult to know exactly what one can say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-06a.960.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL EXCHEQUER CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Where else would the hon. Member expect to find them? Very largely, the unemployed are in that figure because our taxation is excessive. That is why they are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL EXCHEQUER CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "y, or in a large measure, to the large amount of expenditure. We are often told that this is the highest taxed country in the world, and a contrast is drawn with other countries which in that matter, according to the hon. Member, are more favourably situated. But, when we look at those countries, we find in point of fact that they have quite as bad unemployment as we have, and in some cases worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL EXCHEQUER CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member would read his Bible he would know what the turtle is. It is not for me to expatiate on it. The hon. Member is supposed to be a learned Englishman according to the lecture that he gave the House a few minutes ago. Has he never heard of the turtle dove?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1079.5", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL EXCHEQUER CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Rub it in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I meant to stand up. There were many other extravagances which caused the debacle of a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "erty. I was no more proposing an interference with the sacred rights of property than this House was when it abolished the rotten boroughs without compensation. Be that as it may, I mention it, because it illustrates the radical difference of opinion between my Noble Friend and myself in approaching this question. I do not view the right of patronage as a right of property. I regard it as a trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impartial ones !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ouncil. Then let a Measure be framed to deal with that injustice or that grievance. I do not know whether it is possible, but will anybody tell me that it is a justification, or that the desire to remove it is a justification, for depriving the trustees, who have committed no breach of trust, of their position as trustees—for what purpose? That another body of trustees should be substituted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "uade myself that the House will accede to such an injustice as I deem that to be. The Measure is far wider than it was ever intended to be. When the \"Times\" newspaper was commending this Measure to the Church Assembly it desribed it on two separate dates as a Measure the full aim of which was to remove actual grievances now felt by many parishes where advowsons had been subject to recent purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Against the wishes of their parishioners \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " my constituency—the only churches in the constituency where one can still get the faith of our fathers. What have the other trustees been doing? They have been buying up, and receiving gifts of, advowsons of churches, in order that there might be some kernel of Protestantism left. All that this Bill asks is that you should not stop this effort, and destroy the little chance they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the parochial electors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "t you should not stop this effort, and destroy the little chance they have—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Against the wishes of their parishioners \"]—I have seen the churches emptied in my constituency. I have seen one emptied completely by an Anglo-Catholic parson who then built up his own following who are in future to be the voice of the people. The voice of the people is outside the Church now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-07", "file": "debates1933-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf8d16dd055684e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Here is one chance for securing a few isolated livings for Protestant clergymen. That is now being shut down, and the diocesan view favours the Anglo-Catholic Church. Only four years ago in this House we voted, after a year's Debate, definitely against the new Prayer Book, and yet that new Prayer Book is in use in more than half the churches, because the bishops wish it. Can we stop it now?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-07a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-08", "file": "debates1933-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "09f5e3781f800020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-08a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "WHOLESALE PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": " this country. They might be surprised to learn that almost all the countries in the so-called sterling area are now imposing the most severe restrictions on our trading with them. The only countries which have no trade restrictions are India, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa and Australia, of the non-Gold Standard countries, and none of them of very great importance from a trading point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-08a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ry difficult it is to discuss the big, broad, general principles on a Financial Resolution and to keep within the order of the House. The Second Reading is the appropriate stage for a full general Debate on the whole position of agriculture and the way proposed in the Bill to meet the situation. It is a matter of first Governmental importance. This is no second-rate Bill. It is the biggest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "worse. Yet we are told that it is time to re-establish expenditure on the Fighting Services. Again the Territorials can go to camp. Again we can make up all those Services that had to be cut last time. It shows a very extraordinary sense of values on the part of the Government. I entirely agree that if you are to have an Army in being you cannot allow it to deteriorate, and you have to keep it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "nd the like—an extraordinary mistake in values. I am not going to say very much about the question of the camps for the Territorials, as that will be raised later, on a definite Motion on the Territorial Army, but I must say that I can see no justification whatever for putting on that sum for Territorial camps again. I do not believe that the absence of camps would kill the Territorial Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERRITORIAL ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Scotland !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "dditional sum for the Army, but we find young men, who are supporters of the Government, those who might have been expected, after the call of the Lord President of the Council, to give a lead to world peace and prosperity, advocating the building up of home defence. What is in the minds of these hon. Members when they speak of home defence? Defence against whom? Who is expected to be the invader?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERRITORIAL ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are now !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "hat is in the minds of these hon. Members when they speak of home defence? Defence against whom? Who is expected to be the invader? [An HON. MEMBER \"Scotland !\"] Why this fear? May I suggest that if the young men of this country were employed at decent wages and properly fed, you would need no Territorial Army. They would be ready to defend their country at any time they were called upon to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1458.2", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERRITORIAL ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ecessity for the same number of men. When hon. Gentlemen opposite come to discuss other Estimates, such as the Home Office or the Ministry of Labour, or some other Civil Department, they will want to know why the Government are not introducing mechanical devices in order to do away with the labour of a number of men; yet in regard to the Territorial Force, they want mechanical devices plus the men", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERRITORIAL ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BLAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BLAKER", "preceding_text": "professional soldiers take in their regiments—and a self-respect—I am speaking of that portion of the House that can appreciate those qualities—you must give him a suit of clothes in which he can keep his self-respect. It is within the knowledge of most hon. Members that a soldier is entitled to give the girls a treat when he walks out, and that is a right and proper thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-09", "file": "debates1933-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4109af79fbef5189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES (BRITISH COMMONWEALTH) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "I want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-09a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Why even ' Dundee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friend that the Scots would invade chartered accountancy to such an extent as really to preclude the four associations which he has here named. There is no such disqualification in any other society, whatever it may be, with which Scotsmen are connected. For instance, the medical profession of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and even Dundee are considered gentlemen of the highest standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"It has taken place already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)", "preceding_text": "8212;and abuse—may be Scottish. He has shown that there is a measure of reciprocity between the professional bodies in Scotland and those in England. I think the Committee might well consider whether they could not extend this provision. The hon. Member for Southampton (Sir C. Barrie), who intervened, assured the House that there would be no undue invasion of England by Scottish accountants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"What is his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is mistaken. The ex-Minister is one of the hon. Member's late colleagues, who is no longer here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ened to be an auditor of that type of mind. The council would be surcharged, and would be told that they must only do what was right in the view of the auditor. The next thing that would happen would be the taking of the case to the courts, and. when case of that kind gets before His Majesty's Judges—excellent and learned people, but notoriously, as a class, about 30 years out of date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GIFT COUPONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "This morning.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out the word \"now,\" and at the end of the Question to add the words \"upon this day six months.\" I think I express the feelings of the whole House when I compliment both the Mover and Seconder of the Motion on the very fair way in which they have introduced this Bill. I would ask at the outset why it was that the Bill was only made available to Members yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-10", "file": "debates1933-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "681b26af9db4a41d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GIFT COUPONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "o be taken seriously by this House. The small trader has either to combine with other traders so as to be able to adopt the larger measures undertaken by his competitors, or he has to go under. That is the law of future development, and we cannot stand in its way. It is suggested that this matter is so disturbing to business generally that the Government have promised a committee of inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-10a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-13", "file": "debates1933-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "edd1c74281d080a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a different man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "a matter of fact, I was sitting on the opposite bench at the time and I protested against the speech made by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) announcing the policy of the repeal of that Act. When people have been done once they are apt to remember the proverb, that if a man does you once it is his fault, but if you allow the same man to do you twice it is your fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-13", "file": "debates1933-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "edd1c74281d080a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1676.3", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Meat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "nister of Agriculture has already made a voluntary agreement with the Dominions for the regulation of meat, and there is nothing in the Ottawa Agreements to prevent agreements between the British Government and the Governments of the Dominions going on in the future as they have been so successfully conducted in the past. Mr. BEVAN: Will the Noble Lord say to what agreements in the past he refers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-13", "file": "debates1933-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "edd1c74281d080a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1676.3", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "nt the other day a list containing the prices of various brands of British and imported bacon. It says: Market advanced 8s. on Irish and 6s. on all other kinds. This is the direct result of the Government's quota restrictions. All the extra money goes to the foreign countries. There was a letter in the \"Grocer\" a month ago from the chairman of Warren, Sons and Company, who are large bacon factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-13", "file": "debates1933-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "edd1c74281d080a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": " made by the Ministry of Agriculture. The machinery is that the working of these Orders should be by the Board of Trade. The next category of speakers represents the Opposition. They object to the Bill because they say it does not go far enough in the direction of State control of imports, production, sales and distribution—the old Socialist trilogy of production, distribution, and exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-13a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-14", "file": "debates1933-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a8a29552f80410e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Are you one of them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "re to halve their Air Force and then we were to go hand-in-hand and take one-third off what was left, and meanwhile German aviation, whatever it is worth, remained constant, can anyone suppose that a proposal like that in the present state of Europe, and in the present mood of Germany—there are things happening there which cause even her greatest well-wishers the most extreme anxiety —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-14", "file": "debates1933-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a8a29552f80410e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1922.2", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to detain the Committee long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-14", "file": "debates1933-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a8a29552f80410e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When-are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members who sit here— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-14", "file": "debates1933-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a8a29552f80410e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members who sit here— —[HON. MEMBERS: \"When-are they?\"] I suppose where many of you have been all the evening. I know it is late, but I am going to say what. I propose to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-14", "file": "debates1933-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a8a29552f80410e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "peak up !\"] I intend to speak just as loudly and as softly as I choose and, if hon. Members wish to hear me, I am certain that my voice will carry if they will kindly be silent while I am speaking. I have listened to most of this Debate this evening, and I wish to state my point of view. My hon. Friends here, as has been the case ever since we were a party, are divided on the question of pacifism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-14a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA: BRITISH SUBJECTS (ARRESTS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Do the Government not now realise the futility of the policy that they have hitherto adopted, of allowing British subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1984.1", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "hey have ever applied their mind to it, and I would like to have their opinion upon it, because if they are not going to put forward proposals, they must answer the other question, which is of vital importance to this country. In the terrible situation in which the world finds itself, who is going to give a lead in showing the way out? Is it too much to ask that Great Britain should give the lead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "s. I have all my life held the view that you can do a great deal towards promoting international trade by reciprocity. For the first time in our history we have a little brick wall round our country. Other countries have higher barriers. For the first time we are able to say: \"If you will take two bricks off your wall, we will take one off ours, and it will be easier for us both to get over them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Increased unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ers opposite, but the great majority of the House realises that this policy came at the eleventh hour and stopped a rot which filled every man in the country with alarm. But for the tariff, everyone knows that there would have been 200,000 or 300,000 more unemployed to-day than there are. No one can dispute that. You only have to look at the figures of the reduction in imported manufactured goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coal and shipping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "th alarm. But for the tariff, everyone knows that there would have been 200,000 or 300,000 more unemployed to-day than there are. No one can dispute that. You only have to look at the figures of the reduction in imported manufactured goods. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Increased unemployment.\"] There are more people employed in the manufacturing industries than when the Government first adopted their policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ipping are ultimately dependent on the productive industries of British manufacture. The effects of the policy that the Government have embarked upon are only just beginning to be felt in industry. I could take the right hon. Gentleman to South Wales and show him iron and steel works which have been closed for years and have now been opened. I can show him an increase of steel bars for re-rolling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Our creditors!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ional clause, and then they would be free to enter into effective negotiations. The hon. and gallant Member for Pembroke said: If our restrictions— which have not been going on very long— continue, the time will come when our creditors will not be able to pay us. That is a statement loosely made; we so often talk about the \"foreigner,\" as if there was one gigantic collective foreigner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is quite wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "is Majesty's Government to go to the World Economic Conference and support the policy he advocates. Nor do I think that the hon. and gallant Member who moved the Amendment or the Seconder will get out of the Economic Conference, as far as His Majesty's Government are concerned, what they are expecting, because the Government is really a nondescript Government, neither Free Trade nor Protectionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2006.1", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEER: \"What are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member who has just sat down in offering my very sincere congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for East Fife (Mr. Henderson Stewart) upon what I humbly venture to suggest is one of the best maiden speeches we have listened to for many a day. Even although my hon. Friend is a Liberal I am. bound to say that I find myself in substantial agreement with almost everything that he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2006.1", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"But they would be getting less interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "of the business is that a large part of the money which went to create these new housing schemes came from the City of London. It would have been much better had that money been spent in this country, and the City of London would not have regretted it, because they would have had a safer and surer return upon their money if they had lent it in this country than they have in existing circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The wheat quota is not an import quota. The word \"quota\" in that connection means an entirely different thing, and is a complete misnomer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-15", "file": "debates1933-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "671534d07c97dbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "RURAL INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "arts of the country. Reference has also been made to the activities of the Women's Institutes which are scattered throughout the country. It may be of interest to hon. Members to know that the first women's village institute was started in Anglesey, in North Wales, in a small village with a very long name—probably, if it were printed in full, the longest name on the map of England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-15a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-16", "file": "debates1933-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "afd938c55a593d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-16a.2190.1", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral G. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral G. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " the economies at the Admiralty and Dartmouth College will receive the First Lord's attention. I think that the expense of a Dartmouth cadet is far greater than that of the special entry cadet. If there would be any advantage, I should favour the closing of Dartmouth College as an educational establishment straight away. I should have liked to say a few words about the personnel of the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-16a.2190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-16", "file": "debates1933-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "afd938c55a593d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-16a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "at an 'attack on these Estimates, or was it merely an adjuration to the Government that they should take no course which would have the effect that he deprecated? On several occasions I have had some difficulty in understanding what exactly is the attitude of the right hon. Gentleman and his friends to this administration. They continue to sit on these benches, where we like to have their company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-16a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Get on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether Sir Esmond Ovey has given any evidence to justify the statement which the hon. Gentleman has made, that there are no charges against these men; and will the hon. Gentleman also state Whether, if Russians are arrested in this country and put on trial, Russian counsel—The right hon. Member for Epping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The point I was putting, Mr. Speaker—-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Answer!\" and \"Do not answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I say, as the right hon. Gentleman has drawn me into this, that I did not make any insulting remark at all. It is his own guilty conscience that has prompted him to think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why should they not be?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "In view of that statement, may I ask whether it is possible for anybody to judge whether the accusations are true or false? May I also ask whether it is a fact, as stated in the Press to-day, that the British Consul and one of his assistants have visited the prisoners and found them in good health and under good conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.20.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.21.7", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman whether either of the gentlemen who were released have complained of Third Degree methods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.21.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "sh agriculture of to-day is very different from the British agriculture of 1870, for example. British agriculture 20, 30, 40 years, hence will be very different from the British agriculture of to-day. But, instead of the industry being a living, developing industry, fitting itself to the changing needs of the times, this Bill will stereotype it. Farmers are a somewhat conservative community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "no escaping from that situation. It is idle for anyone here to tell these men that they do not know their business. If there is any man here who thinks the farmers do not know their business, let him take a do farm and farm it himself. Can my right hon. Friend point to any one man who will go down to a farm, take it for five years and make it pay? If you cannot do that, do not lecture the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " Scotland in connection with this Bill. I would say to my hon. Friend, in his capacity not as a winder-up of Debate, but as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, that if he thinks he will reform Scottish agriculture with pigs, he is very much mistaken, because he will not. There are more important things than pigs in Scottish agriculture. The emergency in Scottish agriculture is enormously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " of glut and that the consequence was that we must obtain at all costs control over production. Hardly anyone in this House would deny that it was necessary to obtain control over production, and that part of the Bill which gives the Government authority over agricultural production in this country will command the approval of the House, but it is when we come to the second part of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.148.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-20", "file": "debates1933-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8869f30d7e98a0ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And a Scottish Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "-Secretary's instructions I succeeded in gettting into this House, and I am very grateful to him. I know well from the years that he spent representing a Perthshire constituency that he is in touch with the farmers in Scotland and with their views, and that he realises their difficulties. We have a Scottish Minister of Agriculture, a Scottish Secretary of State and a Scottish Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-20a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-21", "file": "debates1933-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "c06c538b25b18e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ed that they were going to use the sands at Mablethorpe for bombing and other exercises we approached the Under-Secretary and made a request that particular consideration should be given to the public in this matter and negotiations took place with the local authorities who also were concerned about the arrangements. The Ministry arranged, I think I am right in saying, to exempt the month of July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-21", "file": "debates1933-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "c06c538b25b18e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who appointed him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I propose to deal on this occasion with the subject matter of this Order. Thank God I am neither a doctrinaire Free Trader nor a doctrinaire Tariff Reformer. I certainly am not a worshipper of Sir George May, the Chairman of the Committee which makes these recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-21", "file": "debates1933-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "c06c538b25b18e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "d to the carpet industry. If hon. Members will note the recommendation for an increase, it is for the purpose of persuading certain people, who might put down new plant to shut out carpets coming into this country, before the plant is there in this country to produce new carpets of a, similar kind. They want their market guaranteed even before they make a start with the establishment of a factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-21a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "hallenge recently made by a group of economists to the financial policy of the Government. We are very pleased to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his place, because the issues that we propose to raise are mainly financial, and the golden key which can open the door to better times is in his pocket. We shall want to know what he intends to do with it and whether he proposes to use it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.333.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the hon. Member give us the volume as well as the value of our export trade?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he exports were £37,000,000, in 1932, £35,000,000; and in 1933 £32,000,000. There is a downward movement in every walk of life since this Government took power, and I am prepared to make this addition, that not only are we going down in our trade, in our wages and in the degradation that comes with poverty since they came into office, we are going down because they came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Normal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "my speech which he said had occasioned the feeling of pessimism to which he referred, and as I think, perhaps, that passage was misunderstood by some other Members of the House, I will take the opportunity of explaining, as he invited me to do, exactly what I meant when I said I did not anticipate that we should reduce unemployment to small or trifling figures in a less period than 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the sailors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "that matter clear. I am not in favour of granting public money for the Cunarder. The Cunarder is to be a rich man's ship. It will not be used by the working people. I could see some reason for a subsidy to the boats plying between the Clyde and Ireland, because working people use them, but when this Cunarder is built not one working-class person will enter it because the fares will be prohibitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say that in Newcastle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ldrums. That is clearly a danger we are running if to-day we increase our public expenditure to such an extent as results in industry in the coming years being weighed down by a burden of taxation due to the interest and the Sinking Fund which has to be paid. If we make a mistake like that now, then five or six years hence people will be entitled to think how criminally short-sighted we have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-22", "file": "debates1933-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "83262dce0524c9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "is going on in the United States of America at this very moment, and he said that since the coming of the new President into office there has been such a change in the outlook in America owing to the initiative of the new President that it has been almost miraculous in its results. There has been no miracle here. There has been no change whatever as far as I can see, except a change for the worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-22a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.511.5", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No hurry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "first reaction would be. I think that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and myself have detected in various parts of the Continent that we had a good chance of being right regarding the second part of the forecast. It will take a little time, and we can wait, because every nation has at last been faced with proposals. It knows perfectly well that this Conference cannot go on indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps he was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the right thing. This background, however, must be dealt with and it has given us a great deal of thought for a long time. I remember a speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) some months ago, in which he told us what he thought we ought to do and my remark was that he might have been sitting under the table while we were discussing the troubles that were in our minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "ck on the Prime Minister. He went as the representative of a democracy. He himself was at one time the leader of democracy in this country. He went to Rome to meet the one who has looked with contempt upon democracy, the one who has poured scorn upon Parliament, and he went as a suppliant to Rome. The right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Colonies need not make any of those comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "come to the world, even by compromising or co-operating with those who believe in dictatorships. We are very anxious that we shall not, either by the consideration of this Pact, or by any negotiations into which we may enter, or by any compromise with people who do not believe as we do—people who have already repudiated democracy, who are ready to suppress opinion and are ready to persecute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "House on every occasion to ask that adequate protection shall be given to a British subject, wherever he goes in any part of the world, but we shall deal equally generously with people who are unfortunate enough to find themselves in difficulties in this country. That is true internationalism. We ask that the House shall not commit itself so deeply, because of this relatively small incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " on armaments might have been achieved by these methods than by the conferences and schemes of disarmament which have been put forward at Geneva. It is in this mood that I look at the Prime Minister's latest plan as set forth in the \"Times\" of Friday last. I do not know whether there is a White Paper on the subject. I took it from the \"Times\" and, if that is wrong, I fall with that high authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "#8212;the functionaries who, I believe, are employed by French milliners to exhibit their wares to the best advantage. They would be mannequins, and not men. I cannot help thinking that he lapsed a little from those standards of international decorum which we expect in a representative of the British Empire in such circumstances. When I think of the figures which I have just been mentioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "#8212;not through any fault or desire on his part—remarkably unsuccessful. His repeated excursions have not led to any solid, good result. Where anything has been achieved it has nearly always been at British expense and to British disadvantage. On the whole, his four years of control of our Foreign relations have brought us nearer to war and have made us weaker, poorer and more defenceless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\" \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "and to British disadvantage. On the whole, his four years of control of our Foreign relations have brought us nearer to war and have made us weaker, poorer and more defenceless. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members say \"No.\" You have only to study what is the position of Europe to-day. You have only to listen to what has been said from that Bench to know that we have been brought much nearer to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lausanne.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "re making a profound mistake if you think the efficiency of our public service will be enhanced by pretending that there is no responsibility to be affixed anywhere. Certainly not. I withdraw nothing. I repeat what I have said, that, with the best of endear yours, with the most praiseworthy exertions, the right hon. Gentleman's efforts have not been attended at any point with a measure of success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-23", "file": "debates1933-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2e274c0d95d69f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN WALLACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN WALLACE", "preceding_text": "ld put them into the common pool, I am bound to say, and I say it deliberately, that the speech which the right hon. Gentleman made this afternoon reminded me, not of the speech of a statesman, of a man who was willing to help his country, but of a man who had some personal vendetta against the Prime Minister, and indeed, to my mind, it was the speech, very largely, of a disappointed office-seeker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-23a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-27", "file": "debates1933-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "af1668c5941b3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-27a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And betting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ent. My right hon. Friend, of course, makes many brilliant speeches on all subjects, but that is no reason why we should necessarily accept his political judgment. On the contrary, the brilliance of his speeches only makes the errors in his judgment the more conspicuous. I do not think that during the last 10 or 15 years his advice on public matters, whether military, financial or political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-27a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-27", "file": "debates1933-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "af1668c5941b3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-27a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bengal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "cess of the education of India in constitution reform. It does seem to me that the wise and the proper thing to do is to take the advice of the Simon Commission fully. I would carry out every one of their recommendations with regard to law and order, and all the rest of it, but I would make the experiment in one or two provinces first. After all every one of those provinces is bigger than England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-27a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-28", "file": "debates1933-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "79915f7bc2c4d0fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "keeping law and order, is a provincial service. The superior officers of the police, whether Indian or British, are recruited as the House probably knows on an all-India basis. They are officers for whom the Secretary of State has and will continue to have responsibility and their position is guaranteed by the fact that we in this House have a responsibility for them which has never been given up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-28", "file": "debates1933-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "79915f7bc2c4d0fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount KNEBWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take one nought off, will you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount KNEBWORTH", "preceding_text": "ffective responsibility is a sham; if responsibility is effective the safeguards are a sham. Fortunately, the world is not run on a rule-of-three of this kind. It seems to me that that is just the kind of thing that hon. Members opposite say when they want to raise a loan of £100,000,000 for purposes of their own. They say that fortunately the world is not run on a rule of three of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-28", "file": "debates1933-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "79915f7bc2c4d0fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": " we call here the social services practically do not exist in India. The conditions of factory labour, as described in the Whitley Report, beggar imagination. They recall the most horrible period of our own industrial revolution. Everyone who has the most cursory acquaintance with India would agree that housing conditions are appalling. I have seen underground hovels in the bazaar in Bombay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-28", "file": "debates1933-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "79915f7bc2c4d0fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "his friends, and I resent the suggestion, frequently made by him and his followers, that they are more jealous of the interests of the Empire than we are. They have no right to discuss Indian policy as if the lovers of Empire were exclusively on their side. We on these benches have a peculiar right to talk about the Empire. Was it not a Liberal Government that gave self-government to South Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-28", "file": "debates1933-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "79915f7bc2c4d0fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two chapters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "in the White Paper is of those who think that we ought to proceed entirely on the lines laid down in the Statutory Commission's Report. The main objection, in the Debates yesterday and to-day, to the proposals in the White Paper appears to be in connection with the eventual scheme of Federation suggested, but Federation was not only suggested in the Simon Report; it occupied a whole chapter in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-28a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hoice be? We are often taunted by those who say: \"What is your alternative? I do not think that is a very fair question to ask. You have a great Government in power, with all the resources at their disposal, who, after these many years of labour, have produced this White Paper and their scheme of 110,000 words. Why should they say to a few poor gentlemen who represent the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ought to do so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " to view with great caution and in a critical faculty widespread proposals for constitutional change. Now you see what happens when the Conservative party, instead of putting its hand on the brake, is led to put its foot on the accelerator—the whole balance of our public life is destroyed. I invite hon. Members to see how events develop. The Conservative party controls this House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I say that the officials ought not to have been quoted by the Secretary of State. I did not introduce this topic. The hon. Gentleman who is so ready to act the bully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1048.5", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOAR E", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no justification whatever for that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1048.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " this country in any serious constitutional dispute. Evidently Ministers do not believe that this situation is one that can last, and it seems they have no doubt how it will eventually resolve itself. Hence all these safeguards arranged to satisfy British opinion. But they are all placed in the Instrument of Instructions and not in the Constitution and thus can be discarded by a simple resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1060.5", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I was about to observe, when Business was interrupted, that I regret very much to find myself, both on personal and political grounds, in opposition to my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1060.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the French system?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " and we certainly shall not have willing buyers in India or anywhere else unless the people are favourably disposed to the Government in power at home and to the political situation which is imposed upon them. The idea that we can compel India to buy our goods, as some people seem to think, is wrong. How are we going to do it? No nation has ever been able to compel another nation to buy its goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ng to be sincere and frank with the House as to what his attitude was. We all know that. After a full study of the White Paper, and with some knowledge of administration in India and some responsibility as a member of the Third Round Table Conference, I fail to see how the plan of the right hon. Gentleman, so far as it has been shown to us—and I say that we are not very clear about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about China?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " highly developed and efficient; it has been developed in the United States, and in Russia. Therefore, while it would be foolish to say that improvements have not taken place in India in the 150 years during which there has been British occupation, and latterly British government, it would be foolish for us, and it would be a mistake, to pat ourselves on the back and say, \"Look what we have done.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "e Simon Commission, with certain temporary reservations as to law and order. In the same way, the whole authority and the whole paraphernalia of Government authority were marshalled against me. On that occasion I happened to be one of the Tellers in the Lobby, and I must confess that I never saw such an ill-assorted cavalcade coming through one Lobby in the 23 years that I have been in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "d down some very fine principles indeed. As he made that remark I said to my- self: \"That is the secret not of our greatness but why many people do not like us very much.\" There is a self-conscious unctuousness about it. It reminded me of Cecil Rhodes, who rebuked people for their unctuous rectitude. Here are we, saying that we are the chosen people to rule India, to rule Egypt, to rule the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "mines and factories are owned or run by Indians—they are run by Indians and other people—I ask myself who was it that took capitalism to India? Who started India on the road that has produced the evils of which we hear? It was not something that India grew out of her own ideas. The Indians learned it from the West. That is one of the curses that we have given to the people of the East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-29", "file": "debates1933-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b4fc40677de0a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ave spoken, that the world is at the parting of the ways, not only in regard to the question of Government by democracies or by dictatorships, but also on the question of imperialism. I do not believe it will be possible in future to have the sort of Imperialism that Rome held, that Greece and other great civilisations practised in the past. When I spoke here on the Japanese question I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-29a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-03-30", "file": "debates1933-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe0ac33251144fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the last comprehensive legislation dealing with this matter was in the year 7876, and is it to be understood from his answer that it is the Government's considered opinion that mid-Victorian legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-30", "file": "debates1933-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe0ac33251144fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply and the unjust attitude of the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-30", "file": "debates1933-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe0ac33251144fc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICS MENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the rates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "siderably reduced, they will have to find an additional rent. I have another case, that of a private tutor, who has rented a house since 1911. The rent was then £58, and the rateable value £52. The rent was increased under the Act to £77, and, if the house were decontrolled, it would be put up to over £100. There is not the slightest chance of my income going up, says this man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-30a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "ts would be higher and the dividends would be greater. There you have the prime motive of the promotion of the Bill. The hotel managers, after the Bill becomes law, will be able to swell the dividends of their shareholders by increasing the consumption of drink if they do nothing else, and if there is no increase in accommodation and none of the developments so interestingly outlined by the mover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " attractions of hotels to wayfarers and foreign visitors. That is the assertion. Now the implication of both the speeches to which we have just listened, and all the memoranda sent round on this aspect of the question, is that people from the Continent and America and elsewhere will only visit this country and stop in our hotels if they can get intoxicating drink at all times of the day and night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "I want to say that scientific opinion and medical opinion are increasingly inclining to the view that a large proportion of motor accidents at the present time are due to motorists consuming, not an excessive quantity of liquor, but a quite moderate quantity of liquor, or such a quantity as is contained in a single bottle of beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "ions for music and dancing licences the special attention of the Council was called to several specific instances where these conditions existed in regard to hotels and where serious consequences to the girls had resulted therefrom. Obviously, any such condition of employment of girl dancing partners is a most objectionable one and tends to immorality and to all kinds of unsatisfactory conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "h some jocularity. He is mistaken entirely in the conclusion which he drew in relation to that matter. The third condition says: Fresh water shall be available on all tables, etc., when meals and refreshments are served. That is the recommendation of the Commission, and I ask the House to note the words. The Bill in Clause 3 (3) deliberately alters the wording and omits the words, \"on the tables.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "s are not usually the people who talk about free imports at all. On this occasion they believe in changing the character of the imports, to use the words of the Secretary of State for War; to change the personnel of the tourists who come to this country. It is plain to me that this House to-day, largely composed as it is of hon. Members who represent constituencies in the vicinity of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "So long as our licensing system continues it is essential that the control of the retail sale and supply of drink should be entirely in the hands of the justices. Why have we licensing justices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "sing justices? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I want to educate some hon. Members of this House. Why have we licensing justices at all? It is because that where there is drink there is danger. The hon. Member for West Bermondsey (Dr. Salter) was chaffed unmercifully this afternoon because he stood up as a total abstainer, as if there was anything to apologise for in that. It is what we are expected to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I remind the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I remind the hon. Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I should like to say that if the hon. Member cares to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-03-31", "file": "debates1933-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4f36fce472d888e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I remind the hon. Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I should like to say that if the hon. Member cares to look—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Mr. Speaker. Are you aware that Noah—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-03-31a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Into the latter part of the hon. and gallant Member's question I cannot enter, nor do I think that the House of Commons would wish me to do so at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1433.5", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "At the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or after the next war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "house and home,\" so to speak, and all that is given to him to meet his needs, perhaps for a week or so, is a \"chit\" signed by the officer which lie can send to the War Office. Of course, when he sends it to the War Office it will be paid immediately and without further question. All that this poor person has to do is to send the \"chit\" to the War Office and he will get the money by return of post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "dia are serving together under such conditions as may be prescribed\"— I will not read the intervening words: a member of either body\"— this is the point— shall …have the like powers of command over members of the other body\"— the first body will have powers of command over the members of the second body— as if he were a member of that body holding relative rank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": " out of the Army. The people who came to see me have been trying for some time to get the boy out of the Army. The letter from the commanding officer showed that the boy was better off than he would be in employment. I think that it would be an advantage to the boy if he could go back to his occupation and become a craftsman rather than that he should stay in the Army and be comparatively useless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " speak louder than words. Do not let it be said that, the older the boys get, the less they will come to the Army —that they will have more sense. Do not let that idea get abroad, because that is the only reason that you are able to adduce. I ask the Financial Secretary to accept the Clause if he wants to get the business of the Committee carried on. If we have to hold the business up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "he discretion of the officers, and it is very difficult to get a boy, if he is a good boy, out of the Army. It is not fair that working-class boys should be taken advantage of in this manner when they joined the Army in the heat of the moment without knowing the consequences and understanding what was involved in handing over their lives when they had never before been away from the parental roof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "s of that kind the knowledge that the lad is desirous of getting away from undesirable conditions can be made known to a responsible officer. An honourable man in the Army would understand the position of a lad who came along and wished to leave the past and seek pastures new. The proposed new Clause does not deal with such cases. It would be as well to say what it really does mean. It says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " I believe in the family life, and I believe that a nation can never be great or glorious unless the parent has an absolute right to the custody of the child. When there is a statutory obligation, as in this case, then a parent has a special right in the eyes of the law. The law says \"18 years\" and does not say \"looks like 18 years.\" The Minister said the recruiting sergeant is not too particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "nt with our case, it would not affect its justice. What argument can be brought forward to justify maintaining a boy in the Army, if it can be proved he is not 18, when the law says he has no right to be recruited unless he is 18? If it is said the boy has made a false statement, it can also be said that the recruiting officer is acting immorally in only looking at the boy and not testing his age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "is will. The parent has a right to demand to have that child back again, and there is no one, who can deny the right of the parent in that respect. When the Army are not able to prove that the child is of age, the benefit of the doubt ought to be given to the parent, and the child ought to be released. I do not believe that the child is the child of the State; the child is the child of the parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£25.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": " made from these benches, in good faith, and we desire to see justice done and to see the law as it stands administered, we are subjected to a good deal of ridicule, not by the Minister but by hon. Members who appear to have little better to do than to ridicule people who are attempting to get the law administered as it is. A man can buy himself out of the Army. I think the cost is about £35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-03", "file": "debates1933-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "30b821e5a4e0d6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The authorities know about it. They get to know. That is the issue in the new Clause. The authorities get to know, and the Government still say that the lie has not been told. That is the official view. The boy is 18, they say, because he said he was 18. Even supposing birth certificates are produced, the boy remains 18 in the register of the Army, and, indeed, remains 18 for the rest of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-03a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-04", "file": "debates1933-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "aeddc8c002f5f3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "Yes, according to the level of the local rates and inclusive of them. It is obvious that rents of this sort are not such as are paid by members of the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-04", "file": "debates1933-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "aeddc8c002f5f3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ey are not there to supply people with a want; they do not build houses because people require them, but because to do so is a good investment, and because they make money out of it. There is one other item upon which I would like to touch. We are only at the beginning of what we expect will be a very long sitting; it is a quarter to six, and we will go on until a quarter to six to-morrow morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-04", "file": "debates1933-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "aeddc8c002f5f3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1625.1", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": "an. I am positive that the effect of this figure, and of this Bill generally, will be to handicap unduly a very worthy section of the community, who are struggling under very adverse conditions, with everything against them from an economic point of view at the moment. These people, again, will not have reason to bless the present Government, but, rather, very serious reasons to complain about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-04", "file": "debates1933-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "aeddc8c002f5f3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A broad hint!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "opolitan Police district, the City of London, Scotland, and elsewhere, and we took three separate divisions running in consequence of that Arrangement. Therefore, it will now, I suppose, be proper for any hon. Member from Scotland to argue about Scottish affairs on the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\" It is not for me to invite them to do so; I only make that comment in passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-04", "file": "debates1933-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "aeddc8c002f5f3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1711.3", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 2.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": ", and possibly a part of a day also, to that business. That leaves us with the task of making such progress to-night as will make it possible to secure the remainder of the Bill on those days, a task in which we can all co-operate. To that end I think it would be advisable to-night, in order to ensure that we shall be able to achieve that progress, that we should carry the Bill as far as Clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-04a.1711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1767.6", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "et Press a statement that some 40 Russians had been arrested for a crime which the House will see goes by the rather curious description of \"agricultural sabotage.\" In the newspaper which reported the arrest of these men details were given of the charges, and the House may be interested to know that one of the charges was \"deliberate propagation of weeds in the fields and lowering of crop yields.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1767.6", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "ish laws. Thirty-five Russians had just been executed for offences not involving death penalty in England. And he added with perfect justice, that the English man-in-the-street would be totally unable to comprehend the arrest, by the same authorities, of well-known honourable British subjects on what could only be a criminal charge, the nature of which was still undisclosed thirty-six hours later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Certainly. This was not a case of the arrest of Prussian subjects. It dealt with a question of the seizure of the goods of Prussian subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ich is of prime and fundamental importance, whether they happen to agree with this statement or not. The opinion states: The Law of Nations founded upon justice, equity, convenience and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage, do not allow of reprizals except in case of violent injuries, directed or supported by the State, and justice absolutely denied … by all tribunals\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "use would say that it was a good way of acquiring information. We have had trouble in this country about prolonged examinations by the police, and there was a committee or a commission set up as a result of the trouble, but M. Litvinoff, whether he is right, or wrong, or wise, says that this system was carried out in this manner in order that Mr. Monkhouse might be released as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "t the arbitrary arrest and harsh treatment of British subjects in Russia was growing, would grow, and would grow rightly. The House will remember that the Ambassador had stated that they had all been treated extremely well. Feeling was widespread that the allegations against these men were grotesque and hysterical; and that these arrests were a stage performance, and a very bad one at that\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Colonel Lawrence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "thought that it was hardly the statement for a high official in the Foreign Office to make— mounted simply to disguise, by serving up scapegoats, the ill-success of certain industrial undertakings in Russia. Again a dignified protest might well have been made; it seemed hardly tactful at this stage to put it exactly in those words. Perhaps I need not read the rest, except the last paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the next!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " light. People recalled a trial some years ago, when. certain Russians had confessed that they had come over and plotted with Colonel Lawrence in England at a time when Colonel Lawrence—long since Aircraftman Shaw—was in India. I have heard witnesses in this country make even more ridiculous statements. Such absurdities were food for derision here. I will pass on to the last paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " at that date in a foreign country. I venture to suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that, if that demand had been made by the Ambassador of the United States as regards a national of the United States in this country, he would have been the first person to resent it. There is no way out of that argument except by saying that we ought not to acknowledge Russia as an equal in the comity of nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " No. 27 is, I venture to suggest, as offensive a statement as could be made by an officer of a foreign office to an ambassador, and one which would be well calculated to arouse irritation in its most acute form, the very thing one would have thought that, when people were in jeopardy in Russia where, just as in this country, public opinion is an important factor in the safety of individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "e that the world is against them. They have their backs to the wall. The most powerful papers in this country time and time again have told us, \"Stalin is dead. The Russian Government is tottering to its fall. Famine is rampant.\" That is the spirit that they have tried to create in this country. It is all of no avail. The most solid, stable Government in the world to-day is the Russian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1814.3", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK", "preceding_text": "re, and in those days, I have no doubt, propaganda was very much to the forefront, and terror was kept more or less in the background, as a general rule. There were exceptions, of course. Lately, however, after two or three years of comparative peace internally, a new outbreak of terror has occurred. Things are critical in Moscow now. The Five-Year Plan has ended in pretty general disillusionment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1814.3", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK", "preceding_text": "lity than that. But even that extremity was surpassed later in the trial to which the Foreign Secretary referred. He mentioned that a central figure connected with the charges in the Ramzin trial was a man who had been dead for months, but what he did not mention was that, in spite of that trifling set-back, the prosecution went on with the case and brought it to their usual successful conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1814.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "itishers get into trouble in any part of the world not merely are we going to bring pressure to insist on their liberation without trial, but that if they are not released the whole of our trading relations will be broken, the whole trade of the nation will be flung behind any British citizens who get into trouble in any part of the world. That is what the House is being asked to assent to to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "fort on the part of the Government to protect British citizens in Russia but as the culmination of a successful and persistent agitation on her part. Why should not the Patronage Secretary give a back bencher that amount of pleasure, and for once let her imagine that her effort has not been entirely in vain. I am certain that there is a substantial section in this House who welcome the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not deserve it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "e daring to suggest that as the present Russia has now been established for 12 or 15 years there is no reason at all for class legislation in Russia. Our newspapers speak with an abandon, with a virulence, about Russian affairs such as they would not dare to use about any other country, and day by day there is anti-Russian propaganda in this House. We do not use such language of any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " the power you would not have a good many of the things you think you deserve now; and I am perfectly satisfied, as I said just now, that when you are sufficiently frightened of us there are many things that you will not accord to me. What is going to be the effect of this Bill? If the Government do not use the powers under the Bill, then England will be covered with ridicule throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " thing to-day. If we are to be told that we have no right to deal with the question of how other nations treat nationals, I think we are getting on very dangerous ground. It is no use for friends of mine to point out our conduct in regard to India. Meerut is no answer to me for the attitude of Russia to-day. If I denounce Russia I denounce Meerut. Am I to proclaim about India and not about Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "and, it is also to be remembered, when members of the Labour party inveigh against the Government for taking firm steps at last in a matter of this kind, that—as I am told and as I have every reason to believe— the whole of the party opposite, no longer ago than yesterday, signed a memorandum asking the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister to do something about the Jews in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1882.4", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "About the trial and that it will be public. It was on 24th March and it was in an interview published in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-05", "file": "debates1933-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a3cc420f37a45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1882.4", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " of the U.S.S.R., like those of other countries, including Great Britain, did not Permit foreign barristers to act for the defence. That, naturally, did not mean that foreign lawyers could not be present at the trial, since there could be no restrictions in this respect. The case would be tried by the Supreme Court, probably early in April, and the sittings would be public. I know this is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-05a.1882.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1904.2", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPRESSED AREAS (RATE BURDEN).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that some depressed areas are depressed because of past profligacy on the part of the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1915.5", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Russia—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. Friend whether it is possible for the League of Nations to be asked to take steps to deal with the very large number of refugees who have been driven out of Germany just now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1933.5", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": " and was re-lent to the Russians at 15 per cent., and that any collapse of the Russian export trade would affect the chance of getting that money repaid. Russia owes Germany something like £250,000,000. She owes America a great deal of money also. She was making use of the unfavourableness of the balance of trade between Russia and Britain in order to make her payments to Germany and America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1933.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1939.2", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "k that that is a perfectly reasonable suggestion. We have been dealing with the subject, and in order that the Committee might have before it the exact terms of the Amendment which the Government themselves will propose, we have had 200 or 300 copies struck off, and these can be obtained in the Vote Office now. I believe that my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General hag supplied them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1939.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the point to which I was coming. My point is that the position should be definite and distinct, because it is of importance to us that we should have the use of Russian flax, otherwise our trade will suffer. I wish to put our standpoint, but, no matter what it may cost, the Ulster people are prepared to stand by the Government to see that justice is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1976.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1977.2", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And so have other countries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "ttee, and it was really my reason for getting up, because it is a new point. If you consider the history of our trade relations with Russia for the past 10 years, you find that consistently we have been buying from them a great deal more than they have been buying from us, in some years creating a credit cash balance of not less than £23,000,000 a year which they have been spending elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "I was going to make my submission, and I think that when I have been allowed to make it, you will probably find that I am not getting away from the Amendment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-06", "file": "debates1933-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "e16bc025fab1d561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1997.3", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN GOODS (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n in force without any date, the assumption is that, in regard to Russia at any rate, you must have this special kind of legislation for an undefined period. We think that if these incidents are closed, that position would not be conducive to those friendly relations which, I understand, the Government and the House of Commons desire. I think it disastrous that the Bill has been brought in at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-06a.1997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-07", "file": "debates1933-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "9280a9b8bd8916c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2087.5", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "preceding_text": "he wood and devoured the naughty children who had insulted the prophet Elijah. It may he said that that was not a punishment for blasphemy but a punishment for ridicule. Then what would be the punishment for blasphemy? In all seriousness I would call the attention of the House to this important fact that the sedition and blasphemy of yesterday are the order, the loyalty and the religion of to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-07", "file": "debates1933-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "9280a9b8bd8916c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good old chestnut!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "aith they are able to endure the miseries and tortures of this unfortunate world. I have observed a Member wagging his head from time to time ever since I began. I thought at first it was some mental affliction. After- wards I thought he did not agree with my opinion, but I have come to the conclusion that it is neither. So if you see him wag his head again, take it from me there is nothing in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-07", "file": "debates1933-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "9280a9b8bd8916c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hitler\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "as destroyed the rest. Are we going to allow all this to be destroyed, just to oblige him? Are we going to allow political incendiaries to set fire to everything, in the national and international sense? Who are the people who are causing the trouble in Germany? They are internationals, who do not belong to Germany at all, and an international is a person who has no country and never did have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-07", "file": "debates1933-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "9280a9b8bd8916c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2129.5", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "ore the House. I must admit that I was a little disappointed with the examples he gave. I took one down as rapidly as I could, and I do not think that the quotation I shall now give from his speech is really very inaccurate. He said he had heard of a woman who had heard of another woman who had married a Communist, and the first woman was horrified that the grandchildren of the second woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-07a.2129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-10", "file": "debates1933-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "f44bcd80d6d87fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2199.4", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "oing on published statements and speeches made in this House; I have nothing to do with the private opinions of people. Then we have the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne), who supported the scheme in this House the other day in a very brilliant speech. We are left now with only four out of 16; 75 per cent. of the committee are what one might call definitely Government weightage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-10", "file": "debates1933-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "f44bcd80d6d87fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2218.3", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Noble Lord as to the desirability of rejecting the White Paper, but I asked the Secretary of State to put me on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-10", "file": "debates1933-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "f44bcd80d6d87fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "t the men who have for months past been developing a particular point of view cannot change in a few moments and bring up to this House a report on different lines. Without imputing any bad faith, as suggested by the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Molson), I say that the Secretary of State, rightly or wrongly, misled not only this House but the country, and especially the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-10a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2358.7", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I have explained -that that would probably involve a change in the law. From the customs point of view a trophy is what it is made of, and it is very difficult to discover a suitable alternative definition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2358.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2363.6", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Would it not be possible to put into operation the Land Taxation Clauses of the Finance Act, 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2390.7", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "xactly what they should do. It is one of the things which causes resentment among local authorities, and causes people to talk about officials at Whitehall, and all that sort of thing. Therefore, I am perfectly delighted that the Minister has resisted the Amendment. I am amazed at the growing development of what I might call the neolithic mind in right hon. and hon. Members of the Socialist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2390.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2395.2", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "er industry. We are not asking for anything extraordinary, nothing which it is beyond the power of the Minister to grant. All we say is that it ought to be the duty of the local authority to give information. Landlords and factors are nearly all lawyers, or they have legal advice at their disposal, but the tenant, the poor tenant, has none. He is of the great mass, the great unwashed, so to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2467.9", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "Otherwise he got considerably less than he ought to have had in 1920. When the 25 per cent. was given, there were no complaints from the landlords in regard to the amount. They felt that it was adequate to meet their demands. It is quite obvious that to-day it must be more than necessary to meet those demands. In those circumstances, I venture to think that the Minister will accept the new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2467.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2485.1", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": " I am not quite convinced by the argument of the Minister as to the sacrifices that the landlords have made in the last few years. We have to remember that during those years their property has been let and that they have been quite certain of their rent for the whole of the time. As compared with other people with money invested, they have had a safe and certain return over the whole of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the lives of those in the trenches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "as no justification for raising rents other than a desire to take advantage of the country at a time when it was fighting for its life. That is what the property owners did, and we were forced on the Clyde to take direct action. We went on strike. We gave the Government and the country the choice either of meeting us with reasonable demands or they would not get the shells. That was the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " the community has been asked to make sacrifices, even Cabinet Ministers—who would have believed it?—never mind Members of Parliament. All have been asked to make sacrifices. It is beyond me and it has always been beyond me why this section of the community should get preferential treatment. I have shown what they did when the country was up against it, and my statement is irrefutable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "fending. They do not know anything about it now, and cannot understand why we get a bit excited and make desperate attempts to defend the folk whom we represent. The Minister said that repairs are expensive and that 40 per cent. is not too much. But I want to remind the Minister that the property owners do not carry out the repairs. Yet rents were never paid better than they are being paid to-day,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2497.1", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "arty. We thought that by putting forward this mild Amendment we would get this concession. We have removed the idea that would be brought against us that, if we had tried the Minister with something less, we would have got it, but that we went too far in asking for all the increase to be removed and therefore got nothing. Now we have used all the powers we could, with such eloquence as we possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2497.1", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "sted in those abroad, and we are going to move Heaven and earth to defend four or five men in Russia and may well go to war over it, but here we have tens of thousands of our own folk, of our own kith and kin, of the poor whom we asked to defend this country in the last war, to defend those homes in respect to which they are not able to meet the demands of those who own them. My last word is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-11", "file": "debates1933-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0588b9007343b50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2499.1", "colnum": "2499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "classes down to the bottom of the social ladder. I cannot understand the ideas or the mental outlook of Members of this House who attempt to make the people believe that they are indignant because of danger to the health and life of six citizens, when they go on by systematic methods grinding the poor into their graves, into mental institutions and to the very utmost depths of poverty and despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-11a.2499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2587.2", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the report or the Minority Report?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "bed to the Unemployment Fund. I refer to the regulations issued under the Anomalies Act, and the statement contained in the report is that they are so contradictory that they have thrown thousands of people out of benefit and cast them upon the Poor Law in the localities. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour doubts that statement, but it is contained in the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2587.2", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "bour groups or Labour sections in those towns. This demand is made irrespective of the political views of the localities. We have requests from Tory aldermen, Tory mayors, and Tory councillors, Liberal aldermen, Liberal mayors and Liberal councillors and Labour aldermen, Labour mayors and Labour councillors. All join in the demand that the nation shall bear the burden of the nation's unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2596.0", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "orities. The De-rating Act of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was expected to turn the area of every local authority into what might be considered a fragrant garden; yet de-rating has brought not one penny of relief to any of those districts, but, by taking away from them many rateable properties, has reduced the area over which the rating of the city to bear these burdens might he spread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2596.0", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " might be considered a fragrant garden; yet de-rating has brought not one penny of relief to any of those districts, but, by taking away from them many rateable properties, has reduced the area over which the rating of the city to bear these burdens might he spread. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"] I am not concerned with whether it is said that it is not true. I am only stating my information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2655.1", "colnum": "2655", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ems to be very little prospect in that direction. I turn now to what has been said with regard to the Motion of Censure. The last three speakers on behalf of the National Government have all deprecated the action of the Opposition in putting down their Motion. They have followed the lead of the Minister of Health to-day. The Minister of Health regarded this Motion of Censure as a, party manoeuvre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2657.1", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is not that so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "them who come from the North of England are simply leading one on to say what one ought to say regarding them. They have been making a lot of noise in the Committee rooms downstairs, they have been passing Resolutions in the Committee rooms, and making the working class in the North of England believe that they were really sincere in trying to get the Government to do something for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2657.7", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Do not worry; it is not my custom to run away from my statements. It may be that hon. Members are satisfied with the statement of the Minister of Health, and believe that it will help the working class in the North of England, but I believe it will do no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2657.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2665.1", "colnum": "2665", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "all. If centralisation is being commenced with a view to making a good job of the business as a whole, then it will be quite all right. The right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade switched the whole Debate on to new lines. He made a statement which we all welcomed. I do not think that there is a Member in the House who did not welcome that statement. But, when will it materialise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2692.1", "colnum": "2692", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ort life I have attended innumerable conferences dealing with what has been described as the distressed areas problem. But the House is not asked to consider primarily the distressed area problem. It is being asked to consider a very simple proposition. It is true that in the Motion we make a charge. We charge the Government with having driven men on to Poor Law relief. Does anyone challenge that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2693.3", "colnum": "2693", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ually. It was proved to be correct. The legislation of the Labour Government did, in fact, transfer a large amount of the burden from the shoulders of the Poor Law authorities to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The facts are against hon. Members. An impartial and strict examination of them by any reputable Government statistician would prove that the Government have driven people to the Poor Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2693.3", "colnum": "2693", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "umbers of people have gone to the Poor Law as a, consequence of the Anomalies Act, you have been sitting here for 18 months and could have stopped it any day you liked. Hon. Members who get up now and in a mealy-mouthed manner pretend to have sympathy for the distressed areas, have sat here for 18 months, when they could get a Bill through the House of Commons in two hours if they wanted to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2697.1", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I am striving to address a reasoned case to the House. Up to now I have listened to the Debate very carefully and no one has ventured to repudiate what I am saying as my interpretation of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2698.1", "colnum": "2698", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The people gave it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "es what they are already doing in Durham, it will cost them more in the maintenance of police and soldiers than they will save in relief. I am tired of cant and hyprocrisy. The party opposite stripped us of all power, and by stripping us of all power they stripped themselves of all excuse for failure. I say to the Government, we cannot stop you doing anything. You have the power in your own hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-12", "file": "debates1933-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "78146a7218b34d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2698.1", "colnum": "2698", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "d of cant and hyprocrisy. The party opposite stripped us of all power, and by stripping us of all power they stripped themselves of all excuse for failure. I say to the Government, we cannot stop you doing anything. You have the power in your own hands. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The people gave it!\"] An hon. Member says, \"The people gave it ! Why do you not try to justify it? Why do you not play the game?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-12a.2698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-13", "file": "debates1933-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "beb7c36ca626a351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-13a.2750.5", "colnum": "2750", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " getting agreement for the principle of German equality. We are perfectly aware of certain dangers of that declaration, and Germany was asked to declare specifically, as part of that Five Power Conference, that, we agreeing to the declaration of equality in principle, she would solemnly renounce any resort to force which might be possible for her in consequence of the operation of the declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-13a.2750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-13", "file": "debates1933-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "beb7c36ca626a351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-13a.2774.1", "colnum": "2774", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "is now much danger of difficulty over that. We have realised that the settlement of the debt is a settlement of a merely financial difficulty which was obstructing the good relations of two peoples. I wish to say one or two words on what has gone on in Germany. The corner boys of Germany have disgraced their country, and in the language of Italy I would say: Non ragionam di for ma guarda e passes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-13a.2774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-25", "file": "debates1933-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf594c04cf7b8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the country\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That may be the opinion of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-25", "file": "debates1933-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf594c04cf7b8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That may be the opinion of the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And the country\"]—and of a majority of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-25", "file": "debates1933-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf594c04cf7b8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the traders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e societies should be taxed at the full rate, while the distributed income should continue to be taxed in the hands of the recipients. It. was estimated that, as a result of those recommendations, if they were put into operation, there would be an increased revenue of £1,200,000 in a full year. After the report had been presented, I saw the representatives of the co-operative societies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-25a.48.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell us how much of that is due to conversion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " been fulfilled. The Chancellor of the Exchequer himself in more than one speech, although he did not make any rash promises, said that he thought the country had every reason to expect that the corner was being turned and that brighter times were in prospect in the near future. The Prime Minister in his letter to Bethnal Green, that famous letter—I am not sure that famous is the right word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "under £20,000,000. That is very different from the hundreds of millions that were expected by Protectionists, which they declared in the country, as being likely to be drawn from tariff duties, in order to enable Income Tax to be largely reduced by making the foreigner pay. So far as this system has conduced to the general shrinkage of world trade, and unquestionably it has so conduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " day there is a large amount of money available. That is one thing. The other is this—and with this I do not think my right hon. Friend opposite will so readily agree. While unemployment is extraordinarily acute, and affects at this moment very nearly a quarter of the industrial population, yet those who are in work are to-day better off than has ever been the case in this country's history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " nearly a quarter of the industrial population, yet those who are in work are to-day better off than has ever been the case in this country's history. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I thought hon. Gentlemen opposite would not be so sure about that, but I ask them to examine the statistics. There has been a fall in wages, but the fall in the cost of living has been three times as great as the fall in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "us statement for him to make, but it suits my purpose all right, because I want to ask the Government why we should ask America to cancel the Debt. What about the boys that are in the Government? What about the Members of Parliament? What about the great financiers of this country who own the War Loan? Let them come forward and say: \"We will forgive the War Debts.\" That would be quite intelligent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rnment at the beginning are with it no longer. I deeply regret the absence of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) and the absence of Lord Snowden. If Lord Snowden had been a Member of the National Government they would have taken a national view at this moment, and would not have yielded to the pressure which has been put upon the Government by the organised drink trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t of the \"joy\" which brings such devastation to the homes of the people throughout the land. When I hear the House of Commons laugh lightly about beer and speak of what it has done, I think of the other side of the picture. There is not a Member of the House of Commons who has not seen the horrible and devastating effects of drink upon some member of his family. Every one of us has a tale to tell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "ast year I pointed out that the springs on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer relied for national refreshment were gradually drying up, and his Budget statement yesterday proved the truth of that prophecy. Not only has the yield from Income Tax and Surtax shrunk, but no fewer than 12,000 persons have fallen below the Surtax level. The hon. Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee) rejoiced at that fact", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "ter that nothing was to be taken from the children, and that their allowances were to remain at 2s. a week. To-day we are told that no concessions can be made to these people, that the nation is still in a state of emergency and that nothing can yet be done for the destitute and unemployed. I often wonder why I am here, and I am sure that the people who sent me here must also wonder why I am here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I do not see the relevance of the hon. Gentleman's interruption. I am pointing out why these gentlemen have marched in a solid army to intimidate the Members of the House of Commons. They are like the silversmiths of Ephesus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-26", "file": "debates1933-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7b3fd588f97eccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sheath!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " which might still be subject to reduction, but that small sum also relates to essential services of tax collection and miscellaneous outgoings. Therefore while we are most indebted to that committee and while we have adopted many of their administrative recommendations it is impossible to achieve further large economies unless you take the knife of Lord Snowden once again out of its shield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-26a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "No. That is where the hon. Member is wrong. If you have a statutory obligation to pay off a certain amount of debt out of revenue and you capitalise it instead of paying it off out of revenue, you are increasing your capital obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "But when, instead of making the Sinking Fund service out of revenue you recapitalise it, you are in fact increasing your capital obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and if my hon. Friend will look at the rest of the records he will see a number of these were voted upon, but I do not notice that he suggests that he is going to give us any of them. He cannot pick out two lines which happen to suit his book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ustry in this country. It is the production of a sparkling wine. I am not much of a judge of champagne myself—we in Devonshire drink more cider—but I had a vintage wine of a good year and a sample of this wine, which, as I understand it, is brought over from France in a kind of grape pulp and manufactured in this country; and you really cannot tell the difference from a good champagne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"7s. 6d.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "om France in a kind of grape pulp and manufactured in this country; and you really cannot tell the difference from a good champagne. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"] Well, that is my view, though I agree that I am not a connoisseur. It is sold at half the price. They have had the advantage of a lower duty,.but now the Chancellor of the Exchequer is going to raise the tax from 1s. 6d. to 6s. a gallon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "on. You have not a rural surplus. You have an industrial surplus, and when labourers go to Australia or to New Zealand they stay in the towns, and will not be satisfied with simple living. You cannot have ostentation on one side and labourers living in a state of frugality on the other. The industrialists will persist in remaining in the industrial towns. Where are you going to put your surpluses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "t Russia' has to organise her economic system on a war basis than Great Britain. You have therefore made it very difficult for Russia to raise her standards of life. It is true, if you have the intelligence to realise the fact, that the mechanisation of Russia provides an excellent opportunity for some years for dumping your surpluses abroad. But you might say to me that you would lose your money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "That is a very proper question and my object in offering these observations is to show how people can buy them. I think if you can by increasing the demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "preceding_text": "the fact that the Budget is not properly balanced, and yet the same party were responsible for a deficit last year of £170,000,000. They criticised the suspension of the Sinking Fund, and yet they themselves, in their manifesto to the public 18 months ago, advocated that very same proposal. They attack now the cuts. They seem to forget that they themselves initiated them not so very long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep out the Socialists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "difference of approach to this problem as between the right hon. Gentleman and his friends on that side of the Committee and those on this side. I shall return to that point presently, but at the moment I think I am entitled to say that every speaker in the Debate has given expression to this feeling, \"What shall we do to save the nation from the greater calamity that may befall it in the future?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Co-ops.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "e workers have had to make through enforced decreases in wages. Let me take the argument a little further, into a field which hon. Members opposite, I am sure, will be willing to approach sympathetically. If you go to any small township in my constituency to-day, and pass through the main street, I guarantee that you will see anything from six to a dozen business shops closed. Why are they closed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-27", "file": "debates1933-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a01239218db9d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "has carried the country nowhere. It has brought us no relief. It can give the country no relief. Where else have the Government turned? They have turned to tariffs. The right hon. Gentleman, one of the archpriests of tariffism in this country, who has been that for years, had to admit on Tuesday that his anticipations in regard to the success of his tariffist policy had been completely frustrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-27a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-28", "file": "debates1933-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d27bbda362d8c25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.404.6", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING (LOCAL OPTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir Godfrey Collins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir Godfrey Collins)", "preceding_text": "y to the House was indicated by the placing of this Clause on the Paper when the matter had not been considered by the Committee upstairs; but it was thought well, whether rightly or wrongly, to leave this defining Clause until the Report stage of the Bill, in view of the fact that during the progress of the Bill we were unaware as to what the exact Bill would be which would come before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.404.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-28", "file": "debates1933-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d27bbda362d8c25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING (LOCAL OPTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the Order Paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I and other Members of the House spent days upon days in Committee dealing with this Bill. Nothing was said by the Mover of the Motion to-day as to what we should be asked to do if these two Clauses were re-committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-28", "file": "debates1933-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d27bbda362d8c25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING (LOCAL OPTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "enditure. Has there been any estimate of the amount of that expenditure? Does he mean that some considerable expenditure will be involved, or merely that a lot of time will have to be given to doing nothing in particular and doing it very well. If there is to be any expenditure we ought to be told about it before we go any further. If not, why should not the Bill come into operation straight away?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-04-28", "file": "debates1933-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d27bbda362d8c25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING (LOCAL OPTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "people than to protests from other people but neither do I attach any less importance to such protests. A large and powerful organisation was initiated by the church people in the area which I represent to protest against the type of dog track which was established there. Personally, I am not opposed to dog tracks as such, although I have never been at one. I see no reason why dogs should not run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-04-28a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "he agreement, found themselves buoyed up with the hope that there was something substantial going to arise out of it. We now find that at the very best this ridiculous mouse, if even a mouse, has been born. When economic circumstances are as difficult as ever they have been in the history of this country, on this May day the House is asked to discuss the possible employment of 3,800 miners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are in Hyde Park to-day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "preceding_text": "tariff walls of another country. It is a trade agreement which enables the British Government to go back on its tracks, which enables it to reduce import duties on certain odds and ends of imports, including mouth organs, on which the President of the Board of Trade boasted that the reduction was greatest. Whether the renewed importation of mouth organs is an asset to this country I greatly doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "preceding_text": "50,000 tons; a month after that it was reduced to 100,000 tons; and we have staggered on since at round about that figure. The most that this country expects to get out of the new Anglo-German Agreement is to stabilise British coal exports for the future, assuming an enormous expansion of trade is impossible, as I believe, at round about the figure that has been prevailing for the last six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Alarmed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD.", "preceding_text": "n the capitalist system. At the same time, let me say that though the Government may get a very small problematical increase in employment, it will hardly be worth the economic reactions which this agreement may produce. This is the wrong method of dealing with our economic situation. It is no use our trying to put our own solution. We should not get our way here. We would be astonished if we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.529.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why on earth do you not turn them out?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "es already. It can only be assumed that it was for the satisfaction of putting into the Board of Trade someone who did not believe in tariffs and who knew nothing about them that we have had all the many changes, backings and fillings that this whole tariff business has contended with since the present Government came into power. Why on earth did they not give us a reasonable tariff at the outset?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.540.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ent that it would be for the general convenience if they would get rid of this Motion to report Progress, so as to allow of a full discussion? At the present moment there can only be a truncated discussion on this Motion. May I put it to you, Sir Dennis, as I understand you have ruled out of order my hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin (Mr. I. Foot) because this is a Motion to report Progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR HOPE", "preceding_text": "ly small numbers. We have all the people who have put their money into these industries; we have the people who have come South to get em- ployment; we have the people who have brought their factories South in order to escape high rates or other conditions in the North. Are they to be penalised in order, permanently, to support a comparatively dying industry like the coal industry in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It had not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "in this very industry. To say that the policy which the Government have pursued has nothing to do with the cuts in quota which Germany imposed upon us is nonsense, because the first cut took place in October, the second in February and the third in April, and it seems absurd to suggest that that very drastic cut in the British quota had nothing to do with the changed fiscal policy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It had not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "eems absurd to suggest that that very drastic cut in the British quota had nothing to do with the changed fiscal policy of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It had not.\"] Obviously it must have had something to do with it. I am informed that when we protested to Germany at the drastic curtailment of our exports, the Germans replied that our fiscal policy had hit some of their industries very severely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure assumption!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ed that when we protested to Germany at the drastic curtailment of our exports, the Germans replied that our fiscal policy had hit some of their industries very severely. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It had not.\"] I am not saying that it had or that it had not. I am saying, to support my argument, that the German policy of curtailing our exports to Germany had a great deal to do with our changed fiscal policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Although it was not the case at the outset, yet a little later in the course of the events, that was the fact. I never stated that the action of the German Government was solely due to the action of the British Government in imposing tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "of the quality set forth in. this agreement with Germany, it is extraordinary that he should have settled upon a whole series of industries with which we in the Midlands are particularly concerned. Take the toy industry, for example. Hon. Members may view the toy industry with a certain amount of indifference and levity, but the toy industry to the people of Birmingham is of very great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-01", "file": "debates1933-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "0b5d7bcd5701a39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "we gradually came nearer and nearer to the figure which has now been arrived at. The Germans came up a little, we came down a little, and eventually we reached the figure of 180,000 tons a month, with the various conditions which are attached. If that is a bad bargain, all I can do is to tell the Committee that I do not think they would have done any better with 'anyone else at the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-01a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " duty on any commodity there comes a stage at which revenue goes down. Those who have been on municipal authorities will remember the argument always used by the manager of a tramways department—that up to a point you can increase fares and increase your revenue, but you finally reach a point beyond the limit of the passenger to pay, and your revenue then goes down although your fares go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Then perhaps the hon. Member will lend me that book. But, to return to my argument, we have now reached the price of 1s. 11d. from 3d., being the original cost of production abroad. The home importer, I am told, will ordinarily sell this article to the wholesaler, not for 1s. 11d., because he must have a profit, but, say, for 2s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.701.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You have.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I do not think I have mentioned Woolworth's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "er and in every newspaper. I would call the attention of the House particularly to the words of Sir Charles Hipwood, director of the National Union of Manufacturers, who said, in a speech on Saturday: Industrialists are very much concerned about the effect of the proposed duty on fuel oil in a number of industries, especially in the Midlands. I call the attention of the Chancellor to the Midlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " letters with me now protesting against the fuel tax. On the other hand, I am satisfied that in nearly every case, if they were only free to use gas under commercial conditions the object of their protest would disappear. I pass now to a complaint of a constituent who uses a great deal of lubricating oil for the purpose of making printing ink, without which all of us would suffer in the long, run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stoke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "y industry. Now, having done our best to be good neighbours and to make the industry efficient, we shall find ourselves saddled with this quite unexpected extra taxation as a result of our action. Had anybody warned us a year or two ago that this was likely to come, we should then have been in a position perhaps to move the factory somewhere else where the smoke nuisance would not be an objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "urden of taxation, through indirect taxation, on to the shoulders of those least able to bear it. Where, after all, is most of the money in this Budget to be found? This year Income Tax alone will find a sum of £228,000,000, and the National Debt will take £234,000,000. Who are the people who receive the interest on the National Debt? Mainly they are the people who are Income Tax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "most of the money in this Budget to be found? This year Income Tax alone will find a sum of £228,000,000, and the National Debt will take £234,000,000. Who are the people who receive the interest on the National Debt? Mainly they are the people who are Income Tax payers. [ Interruption. ] Surely no one argues that persons who are below the Income Tax limit have any money in the War Debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-02", "file": "debates1933-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd4d0f7e695a67d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ons who are below the Income Tax limit have any money in the War Debt. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"] Suppose there are a few thousand who have. What is their share, after all, compared with the share of those who pay Income Tax and Surtax. It is negligible. The year before last, in September, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer roped in single working-class men down to a limit of £100 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-02a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-03", "file": "debates1933-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "291f6dbe3f4b870e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why Wigan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ther passenger or goods, is never in fact paying for exactly what he gets. When an hon. Member opposite goes to Brighton on a Saturday in the summer, he is not really paying just for what it costs the railways to take him to Brighton at the peak of the season. He is also paying some part of what it will cost the railways to take him on the same scale of prices to Wigan in the depths of the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-03", "file": "debates1933-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "291f6dbe3f4b870e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why go to Wigan anyhow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": " goes to Brighton on a Saturday in the summer, he is not really paying just for what it costs the railways to take him to Brighton at the peak of the season. He is also paying some part of what it will cost the railways to take him on the same scale of prices to Wigan in the depths of the winter. [An HON. MEMBER \"Why Wigan?\"] Out of compliment to the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Parkinson) opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-03", "file": "debates1933-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "291f6dbe3f4b870e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "s. Hon. Members, quick as they are are not always able to foresee the exact moment when a Minister exchanges the motley of the politician for the ermine of the judge, and it is not beyond my experience that they sometimes address to him requests and put forward considerations which they would never do if they were addressing someone whom they recognised to be in a judicial capacity pen-dente lite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-03", "file": "debates1933-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "291f6dbe3f4b870e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DOBBIE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DOBBIE", "preceding_text": "hat the railways should be taken over by the nation then, for the purpose of prosecuting peace, and carrying on the transport of the country, it is equally necessary that the railways should be owned and controlled by the nation. The railways are something like 100 years old, and the money invested at the beginning of the railways has been dividend-bearing all the time. It is dividend-bearing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-03", "file": "debates1933-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "291f6dbe3f4b870e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "l the Tory Government backing him, and with the support of the draftsman who drafted the Bill, this Measure will be a gigantic failure, like everything else that this Government sets out to do. They are trying to run capitalism, and it cannot be done. In his introductory remarks the Minister appealed to us that when we rose to speak, and, by the way, we do not get many opportunities of doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-03a.940.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "I would like to clear up one point put by the Prime Minister. He said that in the event of there being definite opposition next Wednesday he would be prepared to give another day, indicating Supply day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " addition of £200,000,000 is a very large one and is setting up an enormous Fund, to which is attached a very large risk because, whatever the results may be, obviously when the Fund is wound up it will depend upon many features and many factors as to whether the right hon. Gentleman has a very nice nest-egg to dispose of or whether he finds an extremely bare nest, which is a loss of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "is not for the purpose of depreciating the £. If not, in heaven's name, what is it for? What is his policy? What is his object? It is monstrous to come here and ask hon. Members who are engaged in industry and banking, who know something about it, to agree to this Resolution. It is an insult to the intelligence of hon. Members that we should be treated like children who know nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1111.4", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": " affecting three particular industries in his own constituency. He pointed out the effect on the toy industry. Well, I have nothing against the toy industry. He also pointed out the disastrous effect on the clock industry, and on the jewellery business. To my mind he was prepared to sacrifice any industry in this country so long as those three industries could benefit at the expense of the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1111.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An increase\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": " that has been increased by the agreement to 77,000 tons a month, which means 924,000 tons for the year. If we add the 924,000 tons of British coal that will now go to Germany to the alleged increase of coal that will go to Denmark, that gives us a total annual export to those two countries of 2,274,000 tons, which is a decrease compared with pre-tariff times by 1,326,000 tons per year to Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "guments. I did. I believed them, and I still believe them. Consequently, when the Government come forward with the first of their proposals, aimed at securing the removal of restrictions, I view it with sympathy and I hope it is a good bargain. I do not immediately jump to the conclusion that it is a bad one and join those who wish it was, in the hope that it might make trouble for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "ndamental and very important industry, namely, the coal-mining industry, of getting some greater part of the market which it would not otherwise have had. It is no good saying that the Germans have been breaking an agreement. It appears that, when the President of the Board of Trade some months ago said the Germans were breaking an agreement, it was, if not wholly bluff, at any rate, partly bluff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " our coal exports to that country in the way they were doing.\" That is my complaint, that my right hon. Friend has been induced to pay twice over for what was already ours; and we find my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North St. Pancras saying that it now appears that when he made that statement in this House, and added that the Government could not allow that to continue, he was bluffing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman has not forgotten the 3,800 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-04", "file": "debates1933-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7d79d9547a7fa2ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "If that is the request, let me point out its disadvantages. In the first place, it would apply to every industry and every article. I cannot think that that would be a reasonable thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-04a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-05", "file": "debates1933-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "daff20b93a4933c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-05a.1182.4", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "TITLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "the subject of one of those peculiar bargains which sometimes take place? Can it by any chance be that my hon. Friend who is the leader of a small group here is a public notary and has insisted on having his name put in; or is it the case that some Socialist above the Gangway is a public notary, or has a relative who might be a public notary, and wants to be put in? I do want to know these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-05a.1182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-08", "file": "debates1933-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "aec75661ae4f1ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are three of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "was listening to the Noble Lord I could not help but feel that he ought to have had a very much larger audience, and that if we had been discussing protection for the farmer the House would have been crowded with landowners and landlords who did not even think it worth while to come and listen to an admirable speech in regard to the conditions under which the labourer is living in the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-08", "file": "debates1933-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "aec75661ae4f1ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Nor among the Opposition either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "to whether they want this country insulated as far as possible on a comparatively narrow protective basis, whether they want some kind of Imperial zollverein, some large grouping on a sterling basis, or whether they want to work back to Free Trade. You can find traces of all these ideas in the speeches of Ministers, but I suggest that you will not find a coherent plan among the lot of them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-08", "file": "debates1933-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "aec75661ae4f1ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1327.11", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "was appointed to fill the vacancy. The congestion of business in those supervening years was lamentable. It was recognised on all hands, even by some of those who first thought of opposing the Motion made in 1932, that the appointment of the new judge to fill the vacancy was necessary. I have a great number of figures with which I could regale the House if necessary, or if any hon. Member desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-08a.1327.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1371.9", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " in a position to say that, subject to the settlement of the actual words, and while protecting the essential position of both Governments, there is every prospect of reaching agreement between us as to the advisability of an immediate tariff truce, that is, an avoidance of the adoption of new initiatives which might increase the many varieties of difficulties now arresting international commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1371.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "e than a point. The stabilisation of the relative value of currency must be attempted by agreement. I doubt if anyone who has not gone through my experience of the last two or three weeks can appreciate the danger of unstable international values not only to trade—I take it that the Committee are fully acquainted with that—but to political relationships. When I was still at sea,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "experience, standing up and having the impudence to say that. The record of his party, especially during the days of Mr. Balfour's last administration, was no credit to any of the Members of the Cabinet concerned. Everybody who lived during that period remembers it, and everybody knows that when Cabinet Ministers fall out the public usually come by their own. I think they have repented at leisure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "his friends, asserted that the Ottawa Arrangements to which he had an objection would prevent any negotiations of this character. I ventured to say that I hoped that the time would not be far distant before he would find that the Scandinavian countries and the Argentine and others would be corning in and entering into negotiations with us. These negotiations are now leading to tariff arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did you support a tariff?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "2;a most irritating form of political gesture. They say that they are as good Free Traders as we are. Well, then, surely it is time for them to prove their declaration. Many of them admit that they were not elected as Protectionists, that their appeal to the electors was twofold, one for a protective tariff and the other for a tariff to get greater Free Trade. Were all those arguments just a sham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Statesmanship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "on beyond, as I have just said, the value of personal contact. I know that it is very difficult for any Minister, when he is tackled about negotiations halfway through, to say the definite things that the nation wants to hear. I know the Prime Minister very well and always, in my association with him, he knew the advantage of an indefinite situation of that sort, and he made the fullest use of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e easily. I want to put this to the Lord President of the Council, who is the only Member of the Government new left on the bench. The captains and the kings have departed to their various duties, and Horatius keeps the bridge alone, or, at any rate, with only one to help, a Liberal colleague who is occupying the place of Spurius Latins. I thought there was something spurious about one of the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-09", "file": "debates1933-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5cb193f2a9c4df98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ot been any stabilisation, but that there has been an unknown profit. I understand from the speech which was made by the right hon. Gentleman the other day that of course there was no question of a big stabilisation. That, I thought, we understood last year, but the phrase this year was \"ironing out.\" That was not the phrase last year. It is all very well ironing out, but how long do you iron for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-09a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-10", "file": "debates1933-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce74d17d97d840f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "TRADE AGREEMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "I have heard Dr. Schacht accused of many crimes, but not of that, and in fact he has lost his position, as I understand, of President of the Reichsbank with the change of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-10", "file": "debates1933-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce74d17d97d840f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "TRADE AGREEMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "t's policy, to which all other considerations must be subordinated. It may be a matter of opinion whether it is better for a Government to have two policies, one moderately good and the other bad, or one wholly bad. But clearly we cannot change the Government before the World Economic Conference. Therefore, we can only pin our faith on the President of the Board of Trade. He remains a Free Trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-10", "file": "debates1933-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce74d17d97d840f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "TRADE AGREEMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no Division!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "r for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair). We come now to the real gravamen of the attack against the trade pacts. We did not get it from the Liberal Benches. Although I listened with the greatest interest to every word that the right hon. Baronet spoke, I did not hear the fundamental words pronounced by him as to which Lobby he is going into when the Division comes, and the House has a right to ask that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-10", "file": "debates1933-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce74d17d97d840f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "TRADE AGREEMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEWART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEWART", "preceding_text": "l; the Argentine Agreement is still subject to revision. Estimating in the most conservative way, and adding what we are entitled to add, according to the statement a day or two ago, the increased market for coal that may come from the further treaties with Norway and Sweden, I see an increased employment in this country of not less than 100,000 men. The test of these agreements is how else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-10a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May we know in regard to the Exchange Equalisation Bill whether any modification is to be brought forward? I understand that we did not take the Third Reading last night in order to give the Chancellor of the Exchequer an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Limited.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "g to requirements, for perhaps five or six days at a time. But one's closest friend may meet one in Princes Street, during some of these very important and interesting inquiries and say, \"So they have let you away from the House. I hope you are enjoying your holiday.\" One of the things we want to get into the minds of the Scottish people is that we have Home Rule in Scotland at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "re are none so cold as Scottish officials, the reason being that, they do not understand us; they are so far removed from the seat of trouble. They are 400 miles away, and they are a foreign race to us. This Bill is a proof of that. We are dealing here with another race, the Scottish race, a distinct race, and their problems ought to be dealt with in Edinburgh or Glasgcw—I do not care which.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1761.4", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By what process?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "ting the status of any person. We have borrowed that from English practice. The method of proving facts by affidavit has hitherto been contrary to our practice in Scotland, but we have thought that there is room for introducing into our practice a method which has for long satisfactorily obtained in England. Accordingly, we propose to empower the Court to make regulations dealing with that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": " the feeling that they are not allowed to choose their board of management. There are some people in my part of the world who are worried about the selection committee. I think the selection committee should be the body to make these ad interim appointments and that appointments should not be left to the board. Then it is not laid down in the Bill what is to be a quorum of the selection committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-11", "file": "debates1933-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "3383956506f918b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "There are one or two matters to which I must make a short reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-11a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-12", "file": "debates1933-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "d3e6cc746ad11614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-12a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLICITORS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " separate accounts, which I think it is the main purpose of the Measure to secure. I may perhaps be allowed to say, without any offence, that I have often wondered why the legal profession, and especially those of its members with very large businesses—some of them, I understand, employ 40 or 50 people in their offices—have never devised a proper system of accountancy in their offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-12a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-15", "file": "debates1933-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "882f9f544466e430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "s Clause; we are trying to ensure that the recommendation of the Committee shall be respected by the Government and that they shall accept the proposed Clause in accordance with that recommendation. If it is not in the best words, we shall not quarrel if the Government can find better words. I am sorry that the Solicitor-General tried to cloud the issue by the use of a number of meaningless words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-15", "file": "debates1933-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "882f9f544466e430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I think that the principal object of this new Clause is to see that people who occupy houses which have passed from control—either houses decontrolled in the future or houses which have become decontrolled Since the operation of the Act of 1923—shall not be evicted from their homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-15", "file": "debates1933-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "882f9f544466e430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.156.9", "colnum": "156", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "oposal, and I need only emphasise once more that we stand precisely where we have done in regard to the principle in the Bill. I want once again to raise with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, not a party question, but the question which I have discussed with him across the Floor in previous Debates on this subject. It is a House of Commons question. It is a question as to the control of this fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.156.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-15", "file": "debates1933-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "882f9f544466e430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.158.7", "colnum": "158", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "imagine that this fund is going to be wound up, and the Government of the day, whatever its political complexion, is going to deal with this sum without any reference to us. That is why it is desirable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should make such a statement as he can make in order to reassure us. A big thing—if I may put it in this way—is not necessarily a small thing bigger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-15a.158.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may rest assured that I shall take all steps which are necessary to secure a peaceful settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e in many respects is bad. When we moved and divided on the Second Heading, the Labour party decided, quite rightly from their point of view, that they could not support us. But, if we had not divided against it, everyone in the House would have been taken as supporting it. We have never denied that it contains elements of goodness. Almost every Measure of every Government contains those elements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a mIncer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "men who can give an expert look at the horns and hooves and say that the answer is two, three or four, as the case may be. I understand there are ways of doing it, but I am perfectly certain that it will be tremendously difficult, as we know it is in a whole lot of other branches of legislation, for even the greatest expert to deal with a marginal case. One can imagine the case of a \"6 months old\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "It does not seem to us that we have had any adequate explanation of the reason for making this change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Circulate them in the OFFICIAL REPORT!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "rd of Trade. Here is an English simplex glove, with the German glove. They could not get a sample of the fabric from Germany, and they have produced a fabric quite recently to match the German glove, and the experts say that it is better than the German article. Here is an English simplex and a German simplex side by side. I will hand them down. The English simplex cloth is superior to the German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " areas in the North. I understand from the Parliamentary Secretary that there is an average of £4 8s. per ton duty on potatoes, and that at the end of June this has fallen to £l per ton. Now that is being increased to £2 in June and July and to £l in August. That means another £l a ton added to potatoes and to the cost of living of the people in the great industrial areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "that I can give him is simple, and it is that the fabric glove is not like any other article. It is one which sells in substitution, as an imitation wash-leather glove, and unless it is very cheap the public will not buy it. It is one of those cases where the demand will vary in direct proportion to the price. What we in Lancashire say—we are just as good Protectionists as anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.322.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-16", "file": "debates1933-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0c8feccd2cb94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why should they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": " we expressed last summer as to the possibilities of large-scale development, we think it would be reasonable to afford the industry some further assistance. So the only reason they give for changing their minds between January and the August previously, on an ex parte application of the glove makers, without letting the Federation be heard again, is that they cannot reduce the duty on the fabric.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-16a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would like to know, the source of my information is a very interesting and remarkable article in the \"Nineteenth Century Magazine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.346.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "ning out as much as 16 tons of coal per manshift. Thousands of men are being displaced in the mining industry for reasons which a tariff cannot remedy in any shape or form. What are we to do? The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not such a pessimistic soul as some people make him out to be, but when I read the statement he made, that for the next 10 years he could not look forward to any hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Those visits have been some of the most useful things that could have been done. There is no standard of finance or character higher than that of this country, and they have been abroad to try to carry that standard to other parts of the world. Every one should congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who happens to be a friend of mine, on the splendid work he has been doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " a year, the latter being the income of a millionaire. In the case of an income of £5,000, the total amount required is £2,293. In the case of £10,000, it is £6,208 for that purpose. The man with £25,000 a, year has to provide £21,106, leaving less than £4,000 out of the £25,000 for himself. In the case of £50,000, no less than £53,505 is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MBKBEES: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " causes for misgiving. Nobody knows the difficulties that have confronted the right hon. Gentleman. He had a very difficult task in making his Budget this year. When I heard him open his Budget, and when I looked at the Finance Bill, I found myself wondering whether he is not like Mr. Micawber, and whether his whole financial policy is not framed very much upon the idea that something may turn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-17", "file": "debates1933-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "73df248508c62f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "the advocacy of additional expenditure on the one hand and of reduced taxes on the other. To meet an expenditure of £697,000,000, and a fortiori a greater expenditure, my right hon. Friend can only rely upon a combination of the two historic methods of taxation, direct and indirect. It was admitted that during the administration of the present Opposition direct taxation had reached its limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-17a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Conference should be entered upon by His Majesty's Government without the House having an opportunity of discussing in a more concrete form what it is the Government are going to put before that Conference. As to the Metropolitan Police Bill, the right hon. Gentleman has made my point. He says it is desirable to get the Second Reading through before there is time for discussion out in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.533.5", "colnum": "533", "heading": "HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "he name of the Solicitor-General. The Bill is one of much interest to many hon. Members, but it is not yet available to Members. Until the Bill is received from the Committee, we cannot possibly devise the Amendments about which we are concerned, and in those circumstances, and having regard to the new Clauses now being suggested to a Bill which is not available to the Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.533.5", "colnum": "533", "heading": "HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "l is received from the Committee, we cannot possibly devise the Amendments about which we are concerned, and in those circumstances, and having regard to the new Clauses now being suggested to a Bill which is not available to the Members of this House—[ Interruption. ]—I am also given to understand that they are new Clauses that have received no consideration in the Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By all parties.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "al relations, international relations, trade boards—the multitude of functions that the Minister has to perform in his department involve an Estimate of nearly £54,000,000. When matters of that kind are being debated not only ought representative Ministers to be present, in addition to the Minister of Labour who bears a very grave responsibility, but the House should be better attended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e biggest Employment Exchanges Scotland, and I see men every day doing things for which in my youth they would have been sneered at. I see them with perambulators outside the Exchange and on the Exchange doorstep, when they are going in to sign. Watch the young men. I want to refer to the hon. Member who is a doctor, and who is very keen about the question of liquor. Look at the facts about drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "a terrible position. If the money were paid each week they might have some method of looking after it, but as it comes each quarter, the result is a terrible hardship. I agree with the Minister that the officials of the Employment Exchanges are decent. I often feel that I am unjust to them. I go to the Exchange every week, and I shout and roar, and I bully them. I curse, and I often swear at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": " the case if the lighting is by electricity. Everybody will admit that fact. Why should Parliament impose upon a local authority a set of conditions which hon. Members would not accept as individual Members? I doubt if there is a Member in the House who, if he had the choice of using either gas or electricity for lighting purposes, would choose to use gas, you are not asking the right to use both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "at fact. Why should Parliament impose upon a local authority a set of conditions which hon. Members would not accept as individual Members? I doubt if there is a Member in the House who, if he had the choice of using either gas or electricity for lighting purposes, would choose to use gas, you are not asking the right to use both. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Either.\"] You are asking the right to use either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on that account!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ough some body like the Metropolitan Water Board or the Port of London Authority. But I cannot understand why a Socialist should object to a working man having the right to have gas as well as electricity in his house. I have both. I get one from the local authority which has control of the electricity supply and I get the other from the Gas Light and Coke Company. Am I a criminal on that account?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-18", "file": "debates1933-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1d77ff8f48c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ese services have, running across their areas, the system of a great company like the Gas Light and Coke Company. I am no friend of theirs but I am in favour of the Bill until I can get a better one. As I say, I should like to see the whole supply of gas and electricity in the London area organised on lines similar to the water supply. I was a member of the Metropolitan Water Board for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-18a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ll, as from the eighteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, have effect as if for the words 'a contribution at the rate of three pence' there were substituted the words 'a contribution at the rate of one penny'. I sent for the 1923 Act so that we might be sure what we were dealing with. Section 2 of that Act is very long, and I will not trouble the House by reading every word of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t of our party in this proposal is two-fold. We certainly want the cotton industry to be assisted in every possibly way. It needs it, God knows. I suppose there is no industry, short of the coal industry, that is in so bad a plight as the cotton industry. The other reason, strange as it may sound in the ears of right hon. and hon. Members opposite, is that we are interested in the Dominions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hitler\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": " have post-graduate courses in this profession, so that a man who was competent and adaptable in his profession should have all the possibilities open to him. Many of the men for whom I am speaking have 20 or 30 years' experience, and yet we are proposing to make this work a monopoly. I know who is behind this. The Treasury. Who are the Treasury? They are my servants. I am the predominant partner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.726.5", "colnum": "726", "heading": "MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "embers of the societies mentioned, shall be permitted to audit the accounts of municipalities, then we ought to lay it down that the same high standard of qualifications ought to be possessed by those who audit on behalf of the State. The standard required of these auditors ought not to be higher than the standard set for those employed by the State I am sure I have not detained the House too long", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.726.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "fession who rather inclined to the view that it did not matter very much about the skill of an accountant, that anyone could be an accountant or auditor. Let a layman try to enter the precincts of the law and see what happens to him. He must have passed all the examinations, he must have dined, he must have lunched in LinColn's Inn—I am not so sure about wining. We all have a way of whining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-19", "file": "debates1933-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66d532005efa05ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AUDIT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tice of the municipalities of this country. I am very pleased to join, for the second time to-day, in a chorus of unanimous approval of a Bill, as I did in respect of the first Bill that was before us. It is a high comment on our work in the House that private Member's days, in spite of what might be said to the contrary outside, certainly do provide for this sort of Measure to be brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-19a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.769.5", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ider whether any part of that has been derived from transactions with its individual shareholders, although some part of it may well have been so derived. We do not stop to consider that. Income Tax is assessed upon undistributed income because that income is the property of this entity, the company itself. For my part, although I have no prejudice whatever against the co-operative movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Penal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman has given us a careful review of the Government's position, and has stated with complete fairness, as we should expect from him, the arguments that have been put forward by the Government and the co-operative societies during the course of the negotia- tions which have taken place. He ended up by saying that he challenges us to show that this is in any sense class legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " the Government's position, and has stated with complete fairness, as we should expect from him, the arguments that have been put forward by the Government and the co-operative societies during the course of the negotia- tions which have taken place. He ended up by saying that he challenges us to show that this is in any sense class legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Penal!\"] Penal or class legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " and the co-operative societies during the course of the negotia- tions which have taken place. He ended up by saying that he challenges us to show that this is in any sense class legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Penal!\"] Penal or class legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I regard the two as the same, and I should have thought that most hon. and right hon. Members in the House would regard it as penal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "as not a very good foundation for their case. They felt it so definitely that they proceeded to change the words that I used, and on the 13th March, 1933, a leading co-operator, whose speech appeared in the \"Daily Herald,\" said: In Seaham Harbour in October, 1931, the Prime Minister said that co-operative societies should not be further taxed. Again, they found that that was a little too insecure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "le too insecure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] They found that that was a little insecure, and they wanted to make it perfectly certain that this statement was not merely made in reply to a question at the latter part of a meeting, but they thought that they would like to get something better, something, for instance, that suggested not merely an answer to a supplementary question but an original answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.797.5", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would send him to another place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "anced by a brewer in an election. He can finance me only out of money which has already borne the tax. What chance would he get from my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he went to him and said: \"I have made a profit of £10,000 this year. I am going to give £5,000 to the Central Conservative Association, and I propose that you should let me off the tax on that amount.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.797.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACM1LLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And is taxed\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACM1LLAN", "preceding_text": "receives a dividend in proportion to the amount of trade which he does with the society. He receives a discount upon the trade which he has done. That, of course, is not taxed. As a proprietor he may receive money as dividend on shares or as interest on deposit. There is no argument, and there never has been any argument that the individual is not liable to tax upon that money. He is liable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.799.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.866.4", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "laxity in the co-operative movement, and the best prophylactics against and preventive of that will be when the tax collector comes in among them. He will put an end to a great deal of the wickedness that is going on. I know that the Labour party do not like it, because I see that the gentleman who got 15 months says: I am a caged rat, and my only hope is that my Labour friends will do their best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " would still be protected by virtue of the principle of mutuality. That principle is that a man cannot make a profit out of himself. It is an easily understandable principle, and, if it is extended to a few persons, it is still understandable that a number of persons combining in order to buy an article more cheaply cannot make a profit out of themselves. But surely there must be some limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "e co-operative trading has been extended to its logical limit, cooperative societies are taxed far more heavily than it is proposed to tax them in this country. There must be some limit to the idea of mutuality, and, when a society, or series of societies, has a turnover of, it may be, millions of pounds, surely it is impossible to identify any particular purchaser with the principle of mutuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "] Surely, if 10 men combine to buy a sack of potatoes, paying 1s. a head for the purpose, and if it happens that the sack of potatoes costs them 10d. less than they thought, and they each get 1d. back, that is mutuality; they have each saved 1d. on the transaction. But if that is carried into the most complicated and intricate system of trading, it cannot be contended that mutuality still applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "preceding_text": "atic speeches in favour of co-operators. In 1921 there was a Debate on very much the same lines. The right hon. Gentleman who is at the head of the Post Office, whom I see looking very disconsolate, followed the Minister for the Dominions into the Lobby. There is also on the records of the Division the name of the Minister for Agriculture and there are also the names of \"Ormsby-Gore\" and \"Bowyer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.891.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "at we can get, and there is something more to be got out of the co-operative societies\" I think that he would have had the whole of the House with him. Anyhow, it would have been a point of view, but he did not do that. He did not say that the Government needed the miserable sum they will get from the co-operative societies by this particular tax. I object to any taxation you are not going to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-22", "file": "debates1933-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b51006dd4201da42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " societies. What we all deplore is the political activity of it. But they have done good work among the very poorest of the country. If hon. Members could have been members of the Co-operative Women's Guild and had seen the great work they do and how much is dependent upon it, they would not have taken this moment of all others to bring in so vexatious a taxation as is being brought in now.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-22a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "May I, at the beginning, ask the hon. Gentleman to get further information, because his whole information is false?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.916.4", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that this embargo upon Russia is causing a tremendous amount of unemployment, particularly in the shipbuilding and engineering industries in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "wants revolutionary treatment. I have great admiration for people who fly, whether that person be Lord Trenchard or anyone else, but what police experience has Lord Trenchard ever had? When did he ever arrest a drunk and disorderly? I have no doubt that if it came to fighting on the Continent, or putting down a not with a few bombs from the air, Lord Trenchard could organise with the best of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "iversity men who are unemployed through the inability of industrialists and business men to find places for these educated persons. The Prime Minister yesterday talked about the rake's progress; this is another step in the rake's progress to reaction. At the present moment the Government are stopping secondary education in every possible way because they fear the competition of working-class boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.960.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who is the writer?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " with the police. For these short-service men, with nothing to come but a small gratuity, the temptation. to try to get rich quickly and to lay by for the future might well be irresistible, and the force become corrupt. I hope, Sir, that you will use your great influence to urge that these proposed re- forms be considered by experts in police service before our great London force is bound by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " both apply for the same high post. I venture to say that a board who had to select one of those persons for a position in the superior class of officers in the Metropolitan Police would automatically come down in favour of the one who had been university trained, although he had less qualification in police work, rather than in favour of the excellent policeman with no university training at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Russian Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rrel with our assertion that the Metropolitan Police Force has been militarised. Surely, the argument is that a gentleman has been placed in charge of the Metropolitan Police Force as Commissioner who has not been a policeman, but who has been a soldier. Let me ask any hon. Gentleman here to reverse the order for a moment. What Government would ever appoint a chief constable to be a field-marshal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ted, every Liberal theory of the past is wiped out, because Liberalism meant that individual liberty was such a priceless thing that it must be preserved at all costs, even if there was some loss of efficiency in the maintenance of liberty. Liberty was so dear, and if the Liberal party are throwing that away now and saying, \"Efficiency,\" they are on the straight road to autocracy and dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "e with modern crime. The policeman lives in the same street as the ordinary man; their children go to school together, they understand each other, and I regret that any attempt should be made to say that the officers of such a force must be brought in from the universities, some young bloods, the scions of nobility, because it is only those whose fathers are wealthy who can enter the universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The White Paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "in criticisms which he made of the Commissioner of Police, Lord Trenchard. I think that complaint was not well-founded. The right hon. Gentleman has introduced a very important Bill dealing with the future of the police. He did so with his usual charm and courtesy but with exceedingly little disclosure of the ideas which were animating him. He based himself almost entirely on the Trenchard Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "yet we have this curious statement in the White Paper: It is not generally recognised what a large number of constables in the Metropolitan Police Force are men of considerable service with no prospect of promotion. It is not generally realised what a large number of Conservatives in the House are men of considerable service with no prospect of promotion. They have passed their turn for promotion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "that there was a Member of the Labour Government who had a very great appreciation of people who came from certain circles, but he is not now in the Labour party. There are two things to be considered. First of all is the question of reorganisation of the Police Force. In that connection, it may well be that you need youth at the helm, but the Government are always bringing in old age at the helm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-23", "file": "debates1933-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "41fa284f5c3794a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": " successfully such a position at the head of the force. That statement has been made by hon. Members opposite. In the Amendment we read that the Opposition is terrified lest the present democratic constitution should be impaired. Under the present democratic constitution which they are supporting, during an interval of 104 years the Metropolitan Police Force has not produced a single Commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-23a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1104.6", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "loyed, particularly to the cuts in the children's allowances which a lot of us felt were really rather hard. How does the Chancellor deal with that? He does not. He has not, I think, ever referred to the definite expectation held out at the time the cuts were made. He does not even say he acknowledges the commitments implied that the children's allowances shall be reconsidered as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1104.6", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for children!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "her hard. How does the Chancellor deal with that? He does not. He has not, I think, ever referred to the definite expectation held out at the time the cuts were made. He does not even say he acknowledges the commitments implied that the children's allowances shall be reconsidered as soon as possible. [ Interruption. ] There was a cut in the general rate of unemployment pay for adults and children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "he working man's glass of beer, and yet they are taking £10,000,000 a year more from the working people than they contracted to take, and they suggest that they are supporting the working man by the proposition to cheapen beer. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has £14,000,000 to dispose of. To whom shall it be given? He is giving it to the beer interest. Have I put the proposition fairly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "y Super-tax payers as possible, in order to milk them. It was argued that if you had more Super-tax payers you would have a more prosperous community, because you could get more money. If you distributed the receipts of the Super-tax payer over the community you would have democratised the income, and all you need to do to adjust it is to democratise the taxation, and you have got your money back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "the members of the family had food, boots and clothing before some members of the family had luxuries. The Conservative party have gone a very long way from the patriachial attitude adopted towards the citizens of this country that was characteristic of the early years of the Conservative party. They have simply become defenders of vested interests, and exploiters of the passions of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A fair sacrifice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "ake the strongest objection in connection with this proposal? I think I may claim in this respect to express the view of everyone in this part of the Committee, regardless of their opinions on the temperance question as such. Our strongest objection is this: Eighteen months ago we were told that the nation was in a great financial crisis and everyone was called upon to share in a common sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " ton. If we are making an innovation in this respect, we are certainly not exceeding what has been done by Germany. Suppose you were having boat-loads of coal delivered into this country, would not the claim of the coal trade for a duty be irresistible? What is this duty? It is a duty upon a commodity which is as much the competitor of coal as any cargo of coal which can be landed in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "I am not a coalowner. I never had a shilling in the coal trade in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "d time again was that the principle of excluding dividends from taxation was agreed upon. If there were any doubt upon that point the Prime Minister, in that apologia of his, made it crystal clear that he himself would not have agreed to the taxation of co-operative societies if dividends had not been excluded. I understand that the word of the Prime Minister still has great weight in the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-24", "file": "debates1933-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "be31d7bc7630e23b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I oppose the Amendment. It seemed to me that the Mover became involved in certain contradictions. He began by saying that his Amendment would not affect the co-operative societies as badly as the Chancellor's proposal and he wound up by saying that it was a much more efficient way of attacking the co-operative societies than the Chancellor's method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-24a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "methods of using heavy oils where light oils are used at present. That question is not affected in the least by this Amendment. The knowledge that the tax is going to be imposed in November is quite enough to prevent people experimenting any further with the use of heavy oil to take the place of a light oil. The third object was revenue and that is the only object with which we are concerned here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD; The Committee has listened to different points of view from different types of men. We have heard the case of the shipping interest well put by the hon. Member for West Derby (Sir J. Sandeman Allen), then we had a member of the Chamber of Sh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD; The Committee has listened to different points of view from different types of men. We have heard the case of the shipping interest well put by the hon. Member for West Derby (Sir J. Sandeman Allen), then we had a member of the Chamber of Sh", "preceding_text": "in in the same way as they have been penalised by the embargoes on Russian and Irish Free State goods. He will hit the shipbuilding and the engineering industry, and it is my business here to do what I can to lodge a protest. I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have regard to all these outstanding facts. On the Clyde we are building a cruiser, sloops, and destroyers for the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "osts of a vessel burning oil, then it is making it a bit difficult for them if one is going to add still further to that heavy item in their costs. On the whole, I think some case has been made out for coastwise shipping; I have considered whether I should make some difference in the level of the duty, whether I should offer to make it half the rate of duty in the ease of coastwise shipping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1362.6", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. HASLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "I only rise to emphasise to the Committee that some of us who have been supporters of tariffs all our lives differ from those who criticise the Government on this point and heartily support the German Agreement. I should not have occupied the time of the Committee but for the fact that every Member who has spoken, except the Minister, has condemned the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That does not affect anything I have said. The President of the Board of Trade supports a policy to which the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Isaac Foot) and Members below the Gangway are declared opponents, and they support the President of the Board of Trade because they think he is destroying his own policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "e. I hope this profoundly anti-democratic attitude of mind will be resented by this Chamber. There is not a Member here who would dare to go to his constituency and say, \"Elect me to the House of Commons, and I will give your power away.\" He would say, \"Elect me to the House of Commons, and I will do my best to protect your interests there.\" Democracy dare not ask democracy to give its power away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "he moment. I hope it will be said that the kind of case put up by the right hon. Member for West Birmingham, who, behind his desire to thwart the plans of the Government and to secure for certain industries of Great Britain the maximum protection, but who is not anxious to argue it on the Floor of the House of Commons, where it may be seen, but wants it sent to a Committee, where it can be hidden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "the House of Commons, where it may be seen, but wants it sent to a Committee, where it can be hidden. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Look over the history of the last few years in this House. Is it suggested for a moment that the Orders that have gone through have been properly discussed? They have had to be taken as a whole, and their merits have not been discussed. We have been thwarted and gagged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has taken them off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " and gagged—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"]—at 11 o'clock at night; and, as a matter of fact, the right hon. Member for West Birmingham said that the Advisory Committee was appointed in order that we might be gagged. So impartial is that Committee, that the right hon. Gentleman has perfect confidence in it. He knows very well that it is so impartial that it can be trusted not to take tariffs off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ies which Members of the Government have to carry out nowadays, and I am making no complaint about his not being present, but he will recollect the early days in this House, the old, far-off days, when it was considered that the first duty of a Minister when an important question affecting his Department was under consideration was to be in the House, however important his outside duties might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1397.3", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "n matters affecting his Department were under consideration. I have something unfriendly to say about the right hon. Member for North Cornwall (Sir F. Acland). The right hon. Gentleman delivered a very pleasant homily to all of us who support the Protectionist policy, but I thought that it was of a somewhat paternal character. The intellectual superiority which Members of the Liberal party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "sory Committee; I do not know whether he was in favour of it or not—naturally the industry thinks the tariff is going to be continued; but then, suddenly, not as the result of any merits or demerits of that particular industry, but because the Government want to come to bargaining terms with some other country, it finds itself deprived of that Protection. We say that is an impossible system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-25", "file": "debates1933-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4511c3b7f36c353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "estic controversy I think, as has been said several times, that the position is quite an impossible and illogical one. The only way out is to get rid of the trinity that has been set up, and to bring the whole business back on to the floor of the House of Commons. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, almost before the Committee had got to work, were bringing forward matters which they wanted dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-25a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-26", "file": "debates1933-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "2a8869694a789ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-26a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "only a joke but, seriously, the money has to come from somewhere. It will not rise up out of the sea or drop down from the air. The British taxpayer will have to pay it in one form or another, and we would like to know something about the Government's intention. To hark back to the currency and banking question, I wish to say that on this subject the newspapers may not be telling us all the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-26a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-26", "file": "debates1933-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "2a8869694a789ede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-26a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "lture for England, a very authoritative and representative body, he ended his speech with these two sentences: He thought that it was certain that the Government was on the right lines. The organisation of the producers at home and the restriction of imports from abroad were the two cardinal points of their policy, and restriction by every means, whether of tariff, embargo or quota, would be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-26a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-29", "file": "debates1933-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "4e5148de80cfa00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-29a.1558.7", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the advantages that the Clause will give him, we do not think that 46,000,000 consumers ought to be called upon to pay the price, until the farmer has made up his mind to have a marketing scheme and an Order has been put into operation. The Noble Lord the Member for Alder-shot (Viscount Wolmer), said in Committee that there would be no marketing scheme without the assurance of import regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-29a.1558.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-29", "file": "debates1933-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "4e5148de80cfa00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-29a.1645.4", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "poses to answer on this Amendment—may point out that there is an exactly similar provision in the Agricultural Marketing, Act, 1931, in Section 1, Sub-section (7), and that that having been endorsed by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite and not challenged in the last Parliament, which passed that Measure, we are precluded from raising the point now. But Since 1931 something has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-29a.1645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or slum clearance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " be available, not, it is true, for relief of recurring taxation, but for such purposes as development work in the distressed areas. That is a vital matter at the present time, and something on which this money, whether it is recurrent or not, could be well spent. It could be spent on Capttal or semi-Capttal works; it would attract no interest and therefore impose no increased burden on the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " consider that this is a reasonable Amendment. It seeks to take nothing from the Exchequer. It only asks that those should be relieved who find it a serious problem at the beginning of each year to face the responsibility which the Government have placed upon them The payment of these instalments may be all right for those who have money to burn—like some of my hon. Friends on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "e country and as the people who have made the country what it is—and what is it? As one of the possible beneficiaries under this Amendment, I would say that we are only asking you to realise that, after all, people can only pay when they have got the money. Do you want to force people into debt? The ordinary man included in this Amendment needs to borrow money to meet his Income Tax demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1806.2", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By cutting; wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "this Amendment will give it an extremely good excuse for doing so. It is not the Post Office's fault that it has made a loss oh the telegraphs. It is our fault. It was imposed origiNaily by the House of Commons, and it has gone on from year to year for a generation. If by passing this Amendment we choose to encourage the Post Office to reduce this loss, it will do so at once. It knows how to do it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1839.2", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " women. When I think of the low wages that they get, I can well understand that they get annoyed from time to time, especially when they know that we are Members of Parliament, and they think that we are not doing our duty. So we are trying to provide not only for improving the Post Office system, but for some advantage to be given to the servants of the Post Office. This is a National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1839.2", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "provide not only for improving the Post Office system, but for some advantage to be given to the servants of the Post Office. This is a National Government. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am encouraged by those cheers, because they lead me to believe that hon. Members will give attention to these servants. We claim that we are the sole champions of these people. We may not be right in that claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "We need not worry ourselves about what the late Government did or the opinions of the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan). What I am considering is what the National Government are going to do in regard to this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-30", "file": "debates1933-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c0640801378c7a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1848.3", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "provements in these respects in the interests of the efficiency of the service and the comfort of the employés. He will not be able to do it unless he puts some words such as we propose into the Clause. The Clause lays down the only purposes for which the surplus may be used. If words covering those services are not included, it will be illegal to spend any of this surplus upon such services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-30a.1848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ate has taken, will be particularly well pleased with the speech, because the right hon. Gentleman has had very cold comfort from the Debate so far. He and his able assistant have heard from both the Liberal party and members of his own party the great feeling of disturbance that is in the minds of hon. Members with regard to this tax. Undoubtedly the tax is unpopular with the Majority of Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1910.3", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "Then does not that destroy mutual trading? Ought she not to receive the whole of the surplus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1910.4", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "No. I am glad the hon. Member has raised that point. I was coming to it. My first reply is this, that it is exactly the same money which gives my dividend as is placed to reserve. But I am going a step further. The argu- ment from the Government side is \"we are not touching dividends.\" No, those are still sacred, those are still covered by the principle of mutuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "We will try to agree. The dividends will not be touched, the reserves will be touched. I say it is a more iniquitous thing if it can. be, and certainly a more imprudent thing, to tax reserves than to tax distributive dividends, because in the reserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "We will try to agree. The dividends will not be touched, the reserves will be touched. I say it is a more iniquitous thing if it can. be, and certainly a more imprudent thing, to tax reserves than to tax distributive dividends, because in the reserves—[ Laughter. ] Why should you tax business prudence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "preceding_text": "money at all, which is money built up for fighting purposes, fighting against the private trader, but it also renders liable to tax money which it is right and proper that co-operative societies should put by and hold as liquid reserves. I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is not possible to grant some concession to societies which treat their reserves as reserves ought to be treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "cue_text": "HON. MEM-BEES: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "preceding_text": "societies which cannot get new Capttal, but which choose to build up a fund out of untaxed profits. It is quite proper that those profits ought to bear a tax, just as the private trader pays a tax when he is able to build up the Capttal of his business in a similar way. I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can reconsider the framework of this Clause on the lines which I have suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": "ddress. The co-operative movement has been an untold power for good, and we, as a Legislature, should endeavour to encourage it as far as we can, without doing injustice to any other section of the population. It was argued by the hon. and learned Member for Ash-ford that mutual-trading concerns pay Income Tax under Schedules A and B, and that they should therefore pay Income Tax under Schedule D.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": "rn to regret. I am sorry to have delayed the Committee so long, but I have spoken from a great depth of conviction, having given very careful consideration to the whole of this matter. It seems to me that, by whatever avenue it is approached, the balance of argument is against this tax on grounds of utility, and it has never been suggested that it can be supported on grounds of justice and equity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I was not surprised when the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to speak on the Clause just when he did. We have been debating it for a long time but, except for the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Spens), not another Member has said a word in favour of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lady Bowden!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " America as interest do not need to come to the House of Commons and tax the co-operative movement for £750,000. I recommend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to read the newspapers of the last two or three days. If he is really in need of money there are a lot of people in this country who have too much money and can well afford to pay out some of that money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "r. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Lady Bowden!\"] The taxing of co-operative societies means the taxing of poor people. My colleague below the Gangway mentioned \"Lady Bowden.\" There was a case where a man allowed a wife £41,000 in five years and still she ran into debt. It is simply wicked that there are people in this country with so much money that they do not know what to do with it and how to spend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1929.3", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "ense scope of the co-operative societies at the present time, with their 6,500,000 members, 1,200 retail societies, their trade of £217,000,000, surplus of £27,000,000, dividends of £20,000,000 and reserves of £9,000,000, and that they have the advantages of all the great services of this country and the protection of our Army, Navy and Police just as every other citizen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1935.3", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ir organisation. They attend the quarterly meetings regularly and ask questions about trade policy. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer thinks that he is going to get away with it because they will not learn what is happening he is making one of the greatest mistakes of his political career. This is a narrow issue, although some people have attempted to complicate it by dragging in other questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1945.3", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "If they do that then the reserves will be taxable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1962.4", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps). It was put in this form. Provided that a sum of money which has been laid to reserve is ultimately distributed in the form of dividends, will the tax which has been paid upon it be remitted? That is not the form in which I am putting the question. My question is: If the co-operative society makes a distinction in its reserves and earmarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "elieved when I withdrew my Amendment, must be very much surprised at the present attitude of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this question. It appears now that he will not do what I, at least, and I think my hon. Friends, then understood would be done. I would ask the Financial Secretary how he can explain this matter away, because he must know that there was a fairly clear understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "I want to add my voice to those which have pleaded to the Financial Secretary to reconsider this matter, but I want to make my appeal to him from another point of view. In my constituency I have the finest group of allotment holders in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of the surplus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " society choose to contribute weekly some small sum to a fund which is set up for a particular purpose, those contributions are not trading receipts, and they are not subject to Income Tax at all. That is not what these Amendments deal with. They deal with the question whether the allocations out of the general reserve of a co-operative society for particular purposes should be taxed or not taxed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ous objects dealt with in these Amendments, the guiding question really is as to what is the relation of those donations or subscriptions to the trading business which is being carried on. To put it quite broadly and generally, if these donations or subscriptions are made for the welfare of the employés of the co-operative society or company, they would be admissible as a trade expense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-05-31", "file": "debates1933-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32e6a5ae69ac215a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or members\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "of the employes, or if they were for advertising purposes— that is to say, for the benefit and encouragement of trading—they would be admissible as a trade expense, and, therefore, not subject to tax. The question, which was also put by my hon. and learned Friend, as to small sums granted as compassionate allowances for employds who had fallen on evil days, or for their families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-05-31a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2126.0", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "erstand what has prompted my hon. Friend's proposal. He has observed in the past few years a tendency for securities to decline; executors have consequently been paying upon higher values than those subsequently realised, and that has created a sense of grievance. But that tendency has now changed. Take the case of a man who died just before the last Conversion Loan. He derived very great benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "hen we have gone off the Gold Standard. That was supposed to be the end of all Budgets. We were to start a new era. The Budget for which the present Chancellor is responsible is not an emergency Budget. He has a surplus. Surely we are justified in coming to him, seeing that he has a surplus of about £19,000,000. He has had the hardihood to give £14,000,000 of that surplus to the brewers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "s of Hillhead, and has seen the terrible situation that is arising. Let me give three outstanding examples of these cinemas. First, the Lorne Cinema decreased its takings by £l,874, while there was an increase in Entertainments Duty of £926. In the Elder Cinema, there has been a decrease in takings of £1,183 and an increase in Entertainments Duty of £1,660. At the Lyceum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "se cases. I know the poverty of the people in many of these areas, and the poverty of the cinema proprietors who are trying to keep a roof over their heads, while providing this cheap form of entertainment; and I trust that Members of the House, no matter what the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne) meant when he brought forward this proposal, will not agree to it being withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2173.3", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Which theatre is that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "The Theatre Royal in Birmingham with a staff of 70 and an orchestra of 14, is about to close. The Empire Theatre, with a staff of 46 and an orchestra of 11, is also about to close. I have the figures of one particular theatre, the name of which I will not mention. They show that the total gross receipts, less tax, amounted to £5,969. After all expenses had been paid, the loss was £2,628.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2195.7", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What are the home-made liqueurs\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "d in bond for home consumption, but if similar liqueurs are imported from abroad they may be stored in bond. As a result the importer is placed in a more favourable position than the home producer, and I am merely asking that the home producer of liqueurs of a kind made in this country should not be placed in a disadvantageous position financially as compared with the importer of foreign liqueurs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2195.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-01", "file": "debates1933-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "2caa7d3314fabf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "I also oppose the proposed new Clause. Before last year, there were a number of drinks masquerading in the names of beers and ales. They did not contain a single ounce of honest hops or a grain of good English, or even foreign, barley. They were meant obviously to deceive. In that category were herb beers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-01a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-13", "file": "debates1933-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5284cce1f74045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prosperity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "thing is not to make any mistake as to the currency ratio at which we may return to the Gold Standard. I hold strongly the view that we need not worry unduly on that subject. The rapidity with which price levels adjust themselves to the exchange ratio in a country is remarkable. When we went off the Gold Standard the immediate effect was an export bonus— or subsidy if you like to call it so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-13", "file": "debates1933-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5284cce1f74045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": " of the Jewish faith who have been persecuted while carrying out their daily avocations. I do not wish to pursue the matter further, but I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that at some time, when conditions may render it more reasonable for such a suggestion, it may be possible to consider the question of handing back to Germany one of her ex-colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-13", "file": "debates1933-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5284cce1f74045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "o the reintroduction of the discredited Protocol of 1924. The same drawbacks attach to that Protocol as existed in 1924 and for this reason, that it is the strongly armed nation that wants war, and not the weakly armed nation, and that by giving these tremendous powers to the League of Nations you immediately create a super-strong nation. Therefore, you immediately have an increased danger of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-13", "file": "debates1933-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5284cce1f74045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "al thing is to make it impossible for any nation to wage war. How can you do that? You cannot do it by simply reducing armaments by 25 per cent. I would adopt a far more drastic method. I would say to every country, whether they subscribe to the League of Nations or not: \"Reduce your armaments by a definite percentage every year for a definite period.\" Suppose you establish the period of 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-13a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR-WEDDERBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR-WEDDERBURN", "preceding_text": "I were to visit any area in which a larger number of workmen were fortunate enough to have retained their employment, we should find a very strong resentment against the idea that men who are in work and are contributing towards national taxation, as well as towards unemployment relief, should pay money in order to provide public assistance to those who may, perhaps, be better off than themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR-WEDDERBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR-WEDDERBURN", "preceding_text": "ea that men who are in work and are contributing towards national taxation, as well as towards unemployment relief, should pay money in order to provide public assistance to those who may, perhaps, be better off than themselves. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It will be found that a large number of wage earners entirely approve of the principle of the means test, which I believe to be absolutely necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Irrespective of means?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "work for 26 weeks? I do not know why the question was not answered sooner; whether the reason is that some people thought it wise to evade, and that it was parliamentary tactics to evade, I do not know, but we have nothing to be afraid of by saying that we think that the man who has been out of work for 27 weeks is entitled to the same treatment as the man who has been out of work for seven weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "do not see here—I do not know why it is—also voted against the Third Reading of that Bill. The names on the back of this Bill ought to have been, foremost, that of the Prime Minister, and next, that of the Secretary of State for the Dominions, because they were two very loyal supporters of the Bill at that time. We have no complaint as regards the Anomalies Act as an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ewal to seek to improve it until the time when a permanent Measure can be brought in. We should be lacking in our duty if on this occasion we failed to emphasise what we have done on every possible occasion. One necessity which we emphasise is the restoration of the cuts. On the Budget we urged that necessity, but we had not the same opportunity then that we have now. This Bill continues the cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to make any apology to any Member of the National Government for any remarks I may make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman prefers the Majority Report he must also take the animadversions of the Majority Report with regard to the same regulations, because the majority took exception to the regulations issued dealing with married women. The hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. Lewis) said that the married women ought to be got rid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "AMERICAN WAR DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "hink it is only right and proper that I should try to get for my own benefit, if not for the benefit of the House, the announcement that has been made to-night just precisely in its proper perspective. If I am to understand the speeches of congratulation that have been made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, an assumption is being made that the American Debt problem has now been settled for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-14", "file": "debates1933-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d8a1d190638e5f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "AMERICAN WAR DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ted, at least. Then am I wrong also in assuming that the House is congratulating the American President and the Chancellor of Britain on having discovered some new device for meeting this situation? If I understand the device correctly, it is the ordinary device by which the debtor who cannot pay goes to his creditor and says, \"I am unable to pay my debt, but I am giving you something on account.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-14a.292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-06-15", "file": "debates1933-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9739d0e8f56553d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-15a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. and gallant Friend think the Japanese Government are the least likely to keep any engagements they enter into, in view of past experience?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-15a.313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-16", "file": "debates1933-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "09be19555445ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I offered to join, provided that I would not be asked to vote for robbing the unemployed or to vote for reduced wages, and the Labour party refused to have me in unless I signed an unconditional form that if they wanted me I should have to vote for these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-16", "file": "debates1933-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "09be19555445ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-16a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EXPIRING ENACTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "n 1930, the Labour party's first year of office, there was a steady deterioration of employment in every one of the first four months of the year. This is the first year in which there has been a steady improvement, and it shows that the husbanding of our resources is worth while. Hon. Members opposite may possibly say that it is not they who were responsible for this, but the international slump.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-16a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "It ought to be plain to the more intelligent Members of the House that public assistance committees are already bound to take into account the question of Income Tax in a case, say, where a man is earning £200 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. We have to-day, I am glad to say, an efficient Minister of Transport. Unfortunately, in previous Governments the Ministers of Transport have not been efficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about an Irishman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "an be served, in a licensed house. I am not a fanatic on the temperance question and I had not intended to speak until the hon. Member for Attercliffe (Mr. Pike) rose, but to talk about poor people going about with half-pints of brandy in their pockets is foolish. If you see a Scotsman going about with half-a-pint of whisky in his pocket it is no indication that he is suffering from heart disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "m; he does not require to carry it about in his pocket. Nobody is anxious to create greater facilities for drinking for any class of people, and I should have thought that there are enough licensed houses already at various street corners without giving this further opportunity to off-licence houses to sell half-pints. You can get half-a-glass, or a glass any time you require in an ordinary house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.586.5", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "on all bitumen and 40 per cent. on the raw material, which is half the cost of the bitumen produced in this country. That is so manifestly and obviously unjust that I cannot imagine anyone supporting the tax on the ground of justice. One of the first canons of taxation is that the citizen should feel that he is being justly taxed. This means a tax of 2 per cent. on the cost of production of glass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.586.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-06-19", "file": "debates1933-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b90e8a771630d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARTIN", "preceding_text": "I wish merely to ask the right hon. Gentleman a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-19a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) and the hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker) seek to put co-operative societies in a privileged position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "lowed as an ordinary trading expense. In so far, therefore, as a co-operative society returns money to its customers in the form of a dividend, no tax will fall either on the society or on the customers. What hon. Members are seeking to do by this Amendment is to say that if the society puts money to reserve and calls that reserve a dividend equalisation account that shall be exempt from taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not realise that, owing to the manner of conducting the business of co-operative societies, it is desirable for them to have an equalisation account for discounts which would be unsuitable in an ordinary businessfirm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "preceding_text": "ociety on one hand and a private trading company on the other operating in exactly the same area, and that both of them succeed in showing, at the end of a given trading period, a surplus of £l,000. It is clearly admitted in law and in theory, and, in fact, by the Government of the day, that a co-operative society cannot make a profit. The £1,000 in their case is admittedly not a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "y of purposes. I will tell the House one way in which some of this money is used. It is a way that I discovered only the other day. Many societies now pay out from their funds a sort of gratuity on the death of a member. It is not insurance and has nothing to do with insurance. It amounts very often to a fair sum of money and is of very considerable value to poor people. Yon are going to tax that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-20", "file": "debates1933-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f551562dc13e3cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are taxed on it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "philosophy which says that one part of our money is taxable and the other is not. Up to now I have had no real explanation of it. The money all comes out of the member who buy the goods from the stores. A part of it is used to pay dividend back to the members direct, and the other is used for a reserve fund to guarantee the preservation of future possibilities. Private companies do the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-20a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DOBBIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DOBBIE", "preceding_text": " the street, know the seriousness of the problem better than the right hon. Gentlemen in front of us. No matter who is responsible for the Anomalies Act, no matter who is responsible for the means test, hon. Members opposite must remember that they are responsible for the Government of the day, they are responsible for its continuity, they are responsible for the unemployment that is in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e Labour movement has stood for this simple test that, if a man was prepared to stand in a queue, he was entitled to decent maintenance. On Friday Members were annoyed with me because I said I was bitter. I am bitter. I have defended more people at Employment Exchanges in the last five years than almost any other person. Never one day when Parliament was not sitting was I absent from the Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "r disallowing claims was not genuinely seeking work, and now, because of seeking and taking the first job I can get, I am to be penalised. I have seen this woman. When she was unemployed and had the stamps, she got 3s. public assistance instead of 13s. 6d. How is she to live? It was done by a woman who had £2,000 a year. It was cruel to rob her. You can say what you like about me, I am angry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.812.5", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "It does not alter the argument. If someone can get an able advocate at one place, it only makes my indictment stronger. If a person can get it at Govan, why should not they get it at Dundee or anywhere else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tuated in one area, but I am assured that a considerable part of them live in Lancashire and ordinarily follow their occupation in the textile industry. Before we leave this subject of the administration of the Anomalies Act and the new Regulation which is to be issued, I want to ask when the new Regulation will become operative, and whether special consideration will be given to Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "The passing of the Anomalies Act has nothing to do with the Regulations which are made under it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of 20&21 Geo. 5. c. 16 and 21&22 Geo. 5. c. 36 ss. 1 and 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " Insurance scheme in 1911, because this Government have issued a Regulation depriving thousands of insured people of medical benefit at the end of this year? It would be just as silly. You cannot blame a Government for passing an Act of Parliament, and then throw the whole of the onus on that Government because a succeeding Government issues Regulations which are contrary to the spirit of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "nce in the world when you are a free man and can start your work when you like and stop it when you like. Workers know nothing about that. They are working at the dictates, in many instances, of individuals who are inferior to them, mentally and physically and that is what makes it hard. That is the difference between work, as the worker understands it, and the work which Members of Parliament do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "rk. The employers of labour cannot get them work. Then you are committing one of the most hideous sins before God in condemning those men to a standard of life of 15s. 3d. and giving to their children a standard of life of 2s. a week. It cannot be done. You are murderers, that is what you are, murderers and robbers—a Government of murderers and robbers to treat the working class in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": ", that is what you are, murderers and robbers—a Government of murderers and robbers to treat the working class in this way. [ Laughter. ] You can laugh if you like, but there is not one of your wives who could keep one of your children on 2s. a week, with all your outstanding ability. I would like to see Lady Londonderry attempting to do it on 2s. a week. I would like to see the Queen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have got to be prepared to be reprimanded by you, Captain Bourne. I will accept the reprimand, but that will not stop me from doing it at another time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have got to be prepared to be reprimanded by you, Captain Bourne. I will accept the reprimand, but that will not stop me from doing it at another time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I will accept the punishment willingly that you put on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "here is a set of circumstances over which we have no control, and, if you send us into power and give us a powerful majority in order that we may stabilise Britain and get the other powers to recognise that the Government have the people of Britain behind them; we will deal generously with you.\" How generously have the Government dealt with them? Unemployment, instead of decreasing, has increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "designated the present Chancellor of the Exchequer the \"baby starver\" because he cut off the children's milk. Everything has been done except trying the humane way, trying a Christian approach. Members here claim to be Christians. What deeds are done in the name of Christianity in this House? They can take it from me that sooner or later the day of reckoning will-come, because as a Scotsman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "s, is being insulted, and insulted in the most treacherous and callous possible manner. It has been insulted here to-day. We are discussing the most serious question that the House or the country can face. Tens of thousands of the best men and women that the sun has ever shone upon have no place in the scheme of things, and the Government are making no provision to get round that state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They got you back !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "It requires somebody of my build and physique to stand here and deliver this speech. Hon. Members have tried to put me off, just us they tried to do with the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Dobbie). We speak not only on behalf of our constituents, but I am speaking on behalf of 250,000 engineers in my union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-21", "file": "debates1933-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "8386d667f16988aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "GAS UNDERTAKINGS ACTS, 1920 AND 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is Sunderland? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "preceding_text": "In opposing the Amendment which has been moved by the senior Member for Sunderland (Mr. L. Thompson), I do not propose to deal with all the points which the local authority has made in the circular sent to Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-21a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-22", "file": "debates1933-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a06130f30d42da2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-22a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "of footling nonsense. There is a slang word which describes these inspectors' reports, which is in common use in ordinary conversation, and that is \"bilge.\" That is quite in order; it is a nautical term. When an inspector writes a report in which be talks about infants of five years of age not being soundly grounded in the fundamentals—I am not quoting textually—he is talking nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-22a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-22", "file": "debates1933-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a06130f30d42da2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-22a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The next election !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "e in such circumstances. I know that the hon. Member took part in this expedition. I have seen an effective and dramatic photograph of him lying somewhere under a blanket or some kind of covering—with his eyes open. He had his photograph taken as one of those associated with the hunger march. I could honour and respect an attitude of that kind if any practical purpose was to be served by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-22a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-23", "file": "debates1933-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0ea42bb9e9e6ae6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBEE: \"Next year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n which it induces in the proportion of direct and indirect taxation is in favour of the indirect taxpayer. It would be unreasonable to ask for, or to expect, an exhibition of irrepressible enthusiasm for a Bill constructed under such limitations. That will be reserved for some more fortunate Chancellor who in the future will be able to distribute right and left the favours which are denied to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-23", "file": "debates1933-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0ea42bb9e9e6ae6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "What is the use of talking about direct taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-23", "file": "debates1933-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0ea42bb9e9e6ae6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is afraid to risk it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "off, provided we can give him an equivalent income, which, says the right hon. Gentleman, must come out of the lower rate of taxation but with an expanding industry. The Chancellor has given up the argument we have heard over and over again from the Benches opposite: \"Let us have 6d. off the Income Tax, and then we shall see a revival in trade.\" He has given that up. There is no assurance for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-23", "file": "debates1933-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0ea42bb9e9e6ae6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wholesale prices!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "cessaries of life for the family. But when flour went up 3d. a stone and there were ten of us to keep out of a small wage the difficulty was greater. I do not understand how the mass of the people are to benefit by the raising of prices. If anyone can convince me— and I am open to be convinced if it is possible for anyone to do it—that the raising of prices will benefit working people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-23", "file": "debates1933-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "0ea42bb9e9e6ae6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "oint with which he did not deal, namely, the raising of retail prices. It is argued in this House that we should raise wholesale commodity prices, but who will guarantee that retail prices will not be raised? There is no control over either wholesale or retail prices. Everybody must have food, and we are paying the same for it to-day as we paid before the War as far as retail prices are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-23a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-26", "file": "debates1933-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b1865b953bf99074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1192.5", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": "he main objects of these proposals, so far as they concern the Police College, is to make it possible to get a better educated type of man into the force by making the conditions more suitable to such men. But while I believe that that will be a real gain to the force, and while I think the Opposition are quite mistaken in decrying, as they continually do, the advantages of higher education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-26", "file": "debates1933-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b1865b953bf99074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ain circumstances which the rank and file of the Police Force desired to have an opportunity of bringing to the notice of those in authority. That opportunity remains to-day as much as in the past. It is not interfered with. The actual responsibility of those senior officers who now are going to be placed in a fundamentally different position because of their training in the Police College —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-26", "file": "debates1933-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b1865b953bf99074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three, four, five !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " Gentleman does not like these meetings of the policemen, nor does he like the officers and the men meeting together in the federation; he does not, in fact, like the men meeting at all. That is a most important point and, therefore, I will put it again. I can see that I am moving the right hon. Gentleman just a little. Apparently it takes the eloquence of a Welshman, no I mean two Welshmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-26", "file": "debates1933-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b1865b953bf99074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "oposals. The basis of the whole thing is that there are not enough brains in the force and that the mass of policemen stagnate. The right hon. Gentleman has a most peculiar remedy. First of all, be makes a serious allegation against the force that there are 20,000 men the majority of whom cannot expect to be promoted. Where on earth are you going to find any force where everyone expects promotion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-26a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-27", "file": "debates1933-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "58a7eab350d8fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "n?\" Quite apart from the powerful aid of the right hon. Member for Darwen, I shall hope to show that it does not in any way conflict either with the spirit or the letter of the obligations which we assume, and ask other nations to assume, in the Economic Conference, from which I have taken a brief holiday for the purpose of coming down to spend an afternoon with my friends in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-27", "file": "debates1933-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "58a7eab350d8fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ry were to demand the unlimited and unfettered right of shutting out everything it could produce itself, what would become of the cotton industry of Lancashire and the thousand and one export trades of this country? I hold no brief certainly for Free Trade. I am willing to carry out this argument at length upon the side of Protection just as I am now giving it upon the side of reasonable exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-27", "file": "debates1933-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "58a7eab350d8fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": " great deal of the fish brought from these distant fishing grounds interfered seriously with the prices obtainable by home fishermen and he mentioned particularly the inshore fishermen. I think I am right in saying that the great bulk of the fish which comes from these distant grounds goes to the factories in Aberdeen and does not compete directly with the fresh fish produced by our own fishermen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-27", "file": "debates1933-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "58a7eab350d8fbf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ign percentage of sales was 6½. That was post-War. Of the trade at Billingsgate market, 6½ per cent. was foreign-caught fish. Ten years later, in 1930, the British total had gone down by 50,000 tons, the foreign total had gone up by approximately 50,000 tons, the grand total was substantially the same, and the foreign percentage had risen from 6½ to 20 per cent. of the entire trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-27a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-06-28", "file": "debates1933-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab35fd7043d951b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1479.7", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain P. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "Is there not a very great matter of principle involved in this dispute? I hope the Government will take very great care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-28", "file": "debates1933-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab35fd7043d951b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "NOTIFICATION OF POVERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " consider what would be the effect of the Bill. The idea is to divide the country into ascertainment areas—large areas, the hon. Member said—for the purpose of finding the cost of subsistence. But everybody knows that the cost of living varies, not only between town and town and between village and village, but almost between house and house, and even between individual and individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-28", "file": "debates1933-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab35fd7043d951b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hurrah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "ption has been dealt with by my hon. Friend, but since we investigated it, I do not think that one single Member of the House has seen sky-writing at all. I should like to ask the Minister, when he replies, to say whether the Air Ministry had anything to do with inspiring the Essex County Council to put this Clause in their Bill; because sky-writing has practically been killed by the Air Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-28", "file": "debates1933-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab35fd7043d951b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The possibility of a nuisance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend admits the existence of a nuisance, although he contends that the arrangements made to deal with that nuisance are satisfactory. I think it must be agreed on all hands that, if there had not been a nuisance, or at least the fear of a nuisance, the Government would never have taken the action that it did nor would the Select Committee have made the recommendations that it did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-28", "file": "debates1933-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab35fd7043d951b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1595.5", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "advertisements that you see in Piccadilly Circus and other parts of London at present. Personally, I take the view, which I know is shared by others, that when you get a very big industrial area where the workers have very little to look to in the evenings and are going through a very difficult time, to be able to look up at the heavy lowering cloud which is all they have to look at to night½", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-28a.1595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ssions are now proceeding. In the Forest of Dean a scheme has been put before the colliery owners for the amalgamation in the first instance of four of the five undertakings in the district. These are the facts about the areas where action is in progress, and I hope these facts will be of use to Members who take part in the Debate. I am sorry that I have detained the Committee altogether too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "um and amortise itself in 30 years. The benefits could be passed on to the district so as to bring about the harnessing of production in such a way that if you decided to close down certain collieries a man would not be beaten by uneconomic conditions and be forced to take any price. He would not be given scrap value but the goodwill value. We must definitely decide that there are inconsistencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "ndustry may carry on successfully. We now have the amazing situation that, the night before last, the Labour party were opposing, in the case of the fishing industry, this very proposal to give quotas, on the ground that it artificially raises prices and is destructive of everything that is good in an industry, whereas here to-day they are supporting quotas and higher prices for the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEB: \"YOU may be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": " recently read a letter which stated; on the authority of one of the largest exporters in South Wales, that coal from the North of England is being sold on the foreign market at 4s. to 5s. per ton less than the South Wales owner is able to secure. We contend that the position is largely due to internecine competition amongst the coalowners and not because we are suffering from foreign competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does the hon. Member not think that it is better to have a Minister who in the past has taken no part in the many quarrels of the mining industry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": "hat this Government has changed its attitude in connection with this question of continuity of appointment, because the present Minister of Agriculture, if he is anything, is an agriculturist, and he has charge of a Department where that know- ledge is of considerable importance. It is absurd that we should have someone in charge of the Mines Department who has no knowledge of the mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. WARD", "preceding_text": "g short time, definitely against it tooth and nail. We are grateful to the Secretary for Mines for all he is trying to do for the coal industry. I was rather surprised when the oil duty was being debated that we did not get more support from the hon. Members on the Labour Benches. I would have thought they would be eager and anxious that something should be done to give the coal industry a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at your own benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "eans was mechanisation. We have increased output since 1926 by 22 per cent. but we have increased unemployment by 22 per cent. until there are nearly 400,000 men out of work in the coal industry. In my own constituency nearly two-thirds of the normal complement of miners normally engaged are idle, and will be idle for ever. And what is this House doing about it? Look at the state of the House now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "preceding_text": "What ridiculous nonsense! We know perfectly well that the reason why the Labour Government fell was because it was completely incapable of dealing with anything. Indeed we know that, if the Labour Government had been allowed to go on for a few more days, the miners' wages would have fallen much below what they are to-day. Hon. Members opposite probably do not agree with that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "preceding_text": "shed we could get long-term agreements in the industry. It is desirable to get those agreements, but I would remind the hon. Member how extremely difficult it is to get them. How can you get long-term agreement on anything when you have fluctuating currencies and quotas and import duties all over the world? When we can get rid, as I hope we shall get rid some day of quotas and import duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELLD", "preceding_text": "those agreements, but I would remind the hon. Member how extremely difficult it is to get them. How can you get long-term agreement on anything when you have fluctuating currencies and quotas and import duties all over the world? When we can get rid, as I hope we shall get rid some day of quotas and import duties—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Certainly, that is the policy of the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-06-29", "file": "debates1933-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "223d35c714caee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1796.10", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"A state of flux?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e time which was necessary if it was to be of practical value to this House. I want to make a further point. This amount is asked for because we do not want Newfoundland to be a defaulter on its debts in the eyes of the world. The Government believe that that would have awkward repercussions, and particularly at this time, when debts are generally in a state of—I do not know the word I want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-06-29a.1796.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA (BRITISH SUBJECT'S DETENTION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend consider asking the Soviet Government for a complete list of British subjects who are detained in Russia at the present moment, together with the offences with which they have been charged, and their sentences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "me Minister of course does not even do what the Dominions Secretary did. He does not even deign to look in here now. He is one of the lost legion. Now we find that without any notice to the Opposition, the President of the Board of Trade is absent from this Debate. The Chief Whip does not come to us and say:\"We find that the Minister cannot be here to-day, and we must try to alter the date again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Imports!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "Percentage of the value of the total exports which go from the United Kingdom; that is to say, the United Kingdom proportion of the exports to those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the hon. Gentleman when he talks about unemployment growing rapidly. I have just given figures which show that the reverse is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER:\"It has achieved its object!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "tish Ambassador to Moscow would not have touched the Russian Government on any sensitive spot. If you ask me whether this touches them on a sensitive spot I say that it does; and, what is more, it is the only spot we can reach.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th April. 1933; col. 1884, Vol. 276.] As far as I know, this nation has very little credit out of what has taken place during the last two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "say at the World Conference. Then the Lord President of the Council, whom we are glad to see here listening to this Debate, made a speech at Glasgow in which he used this language: The principle of preserving our own market by restrictions for what we ourselves can produce and do, I believe to be fundamentally a right principle, and you may rely on the Government pursuing it with all their power.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "thought, but one undoubted fact emerges from the discussions which have taken place in South Kensington, and that is the degree of candour which has been shown by the representatives of one country to the representatives of all others. That has been the most valuable service, not only to the Conference but to the well-being and good feeling of the world. The difficulty of securing agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-04", "file": "debates1933-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f0dd44d62332ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e quite an unnecessary showing of how little account he regarded Members of the House of Commons, or at least Members of the Opposition. Even supposing he had the most urgent and unexpected reasons for being absent, suppose he was engaged on the highest affairs of State, it would not have hurt his dignity when he arrived to say that he was sorry he was not present at the opening of the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-04a.305.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-05", "file": "debates1933-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "06283dd819adb8e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is it the intention of the Government that ships which import foodstuffs into this country must be British ships? Is that the understanding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-05", "file": "debates1933-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "06283dd819adb8e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "preceding_text": "ays for a builder to plan to set up 300 small houses. The Tariff Advisory Committee glibly suggest that in all probability there will be no material increase in the price of houses as a result of the duty upon doors. Is that relevant? Surely, what we have to consider is not the increase in the price of houses when finished so much as the effect which the duty will have upon the building of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-05", "file": "debates1933-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "06283dd819adb8e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "preceding_text": " Secretary is Member for Luton and also the writer of the article. The article is important in some respects. It starts off with a most. wonderful description of the delegates at the Conference of the nations of the world falling over each other in their admiration of our tariff system. It speaks, for instance, of how they admire its complete detachment from political influence and pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-05", "file": "debates1933-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "06283dd819adb8e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "e to protect the public and to express the opinions of those who criticise these proposals. The hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) pointed out how this new procedure makes a useful precedent for a new form of Government. The House, as a whole, welcomes this new procedure and even regards criticism as objectionable. We are expected to accept these Orders in silence and en bloc", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-05a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d, in all England and Wales, £440,000. I have not time to deal with the actual living conditions of the people in some of these necessitous areas. Within the last week or two documents have been published by people who have been undertaking social research in places like Hull and Sheffield, not people whose bona fides can be questioned, not doubtful Socialist agitators, but reasonable people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "available, and, so far as I can gather from the attitude of the Minister and the Government, it does not look to me as though we are likely to get any more, but I consider the basis of the 2s. rate as being a fair compromise, and I am prepared to trust the Government to see, not only that the formula is a fair one, but also that it is fairly applied. I should like to say, as I said upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "roduced. I should have expected from a gentleman like the hon. Member for Richmond a much more kindly and humane approach to this terrible problem which we are faced with and which our people are facing in a courageous fashion. All employers are evidently not so hard-hearted as the hon. Member, because I have just got a big concession from Sir Robert McAlpine for the unemployed in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "Health if be did not toe the line and come up to scratch, but now he comes with this Bill, which reminds me of Sir John Falstaff's tavern bill. but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! It is a, very poor half-pennyworth of bread. I represent an area that is particularly distressed and that has borne the heat and burden of the day ever since I have been its representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " do not want to pursue it too far, but the hon. Member must know that there are 35,000 more unemployed in the mining industry to-day than there were 12 months ago. The contrast between the last Debate and this is very striking indeed. The right hon. Gentleman is offering £500,000 to the depressed areas, and he shakes a minatory finger at us and talks about insisting upon sound administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-06", "file": "debates1933-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e7304f54ff0fa58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPER COMPETITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "preceding_text": "aken against all other newspapers which published, these competitions, but that has not been the case. Sheffield has been singled out, and I protest at the way in which the newspapers have been treated in Sheffield. They did not proceed, as in the case of Manchester, by issuing summonses against the newspapers, but they proceeded by search warrant and by arrest of important officials of the paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-06a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-07", "file": "debates1933-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "37dd705330aafebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-07a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include flats?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "uture. The future will be shown by the number of houses, assisted and unassisted, which have been approved for construction by local authorities under various schemes. The number of houses approved in the first five months of 1932 was 17,600. In the first five months of 1933 it was 17,800, actually a little more. So the effort in housing by the local authorities has actually not diminished at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-07a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-07", "file": "debates1933-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "37dd705330aafebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-07a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Building cost only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "the provisions under our Housing Act by which they can get an advance from the building societies up to 90 per cent. I do not know whether hon. Members have seen the two model houses erected in Aldwych. If not, I am sure they would be very interested to see them. They are a couple of cottages, each with three bedrooms, and the combined cost of the two cottages is £450, that is £225 each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-07a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-10", "file": "debates1933-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1053d28637780dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "o tell us. Does he believe that the welfare of the world depends upon how much gold you can dig up and bury in the vaults of the bank? Does anyone on that Bench believe that the well-being of the world depends upon whether there is gold in the world or not? Surely that is nonsense. The thing that maintains the world is the bone, sinew and muscle of the workers of the world applied to raw material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-10", "file": "debates1933-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1053d28637780dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "preceding_text": "The speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) was, I think, an endorsement of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). I think that they were in agreement in regard to the policy of the President of the United States and its effects in America,.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-10", "file": "debates1933-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b1053d28637780dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "hold on these matters than he used to be, but he has still a long way to progress. He still shares with others of his colleagues on that bench the belief that tariffs have some influence on employment and can be, in certain circumstances, an advantage to the country. He believes in what is called quantitative regulation, but the arch priest of that policy, the Minister of Agriculture, is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-10a.872.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. SANDERSON", "preceding_text": "This matter is really most serious, and I would urge upon the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.905.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.924.10", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Alter the war!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say when it will be possible to make a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.924.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA (TRADE NEGOTIATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN EVANS", "preceding_text": "e many questions addressed to the hon. Gentleman on this matter, may I ask him whether, in negotiating the terms of the trade agreement with Russia, he will, with a view to securing the best possible terms to this country, carefully exclude from the discussions matters which are entirely extraneous and irrelevant, and such questions as the claim mentioned in the question and claims by individuals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.930.9", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes it is. Lord Francis Scott is the leader of this party. I say that Lord Francis Scott, so far as I know, has made no statement of any sort or kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.930.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "he whole oat crop of the country, cut flowers alone are a third the size of the barley crop, and fruit, flowers and vegetables together are far greater than the wheat and barley crop of the country—a very remarkable figure and one that makes me view with apprehension any suggestion of altering the arrangements under which the very gratifying improvement in these crops has so far taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-11", "file": "debates1933-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c13ded9132b0e1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "thout being facetious, let us be frank and say that we have never known the time when agriculture could pay good wages. Not all farmers are doing badly, although the great majority of them are. I heard a farmer publicly declare, within the last three months, that he had received a cheque for his share of the wheat quota and that he did not need it, because he was making plenty of money without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-11a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (MILITARY AIRCRAFT).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "May I take it that no such licence will be granted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "dary schools in our social system is not, as it should be, that of a lift or a stairway to the higher storeys of the social structure. It is an intermediate school devoted to giving education up to the age of 16, an education, in turn, mainly devoted to cramming for a leaving certificate, and that function it performs no better but rather worse, in many instances, than the ordinary central school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " giving a very nice finishing education for a leaving certificate to the ordinary rank and file, the general run of the middle class, is not performing a useful function; I am saying that it is performing no function which cannot equally well be performed by senior, central, or intermediate schools, which make no such pretensions as does the secondary school. I am not attacking any type of school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman's attention to this: The inquiry committee cannot get away from the feeling that there are many schools in which children really require extra nourishment and the arrangements for pro- viding it are either inadequate or nonexistent. I ask the hon. Gentleman not to rely—I say this without casting any aspersion—solely and wholly on the reports of local medical officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "dary education is restricted and limited. Cuts are made even on the copy books of the children, in the amount of ink they use and in the furniture. There is reaction in the broad sense and in detail. The hon. Gentleman need only look at his memoranda and he will find a saving of, I believe, about £400,000—I am speaking from memory—on furniture and so on, and on repairs to schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "er in his impassioned speech, greatly to the detriment of the brass-bound Box, telling us that this was a reactionary policy in that it meant less free secondary education, and that we were damping down the progressive authorities and encouraging only the backward and reactionary ones. The only progress of the kind that he has in mind is progress towards bankruptcy in pocket and ruin of character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1154.8", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "e public have rights to the view. It is contended that owing to the growth of the poplar trees, which were put in to nurse the plane trees in the Embankment Gardens, the view over the gardens and the river is obstructed, especially when the trees are in full foliage. I have examined the place repeatedly. These old poplar trees should have been cut down long ago. They are very much mutilated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1154.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "Either my hon. and gallant Friend wishes to see it destroyed or he does not. I understood that he wished to see it preserved. If that is so, he wishes to put every impediment in the way of it being destroyed. If he wishes to see the owners inhibited from the chance of destroying it, it should be scheduled as a national monument, compensation should be paid and it should be treated accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-12", "file": "debates1933-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98856e1729fc6d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PATRICK FORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PATRICK FORD", "preceding_text": " of the Bill we give this Instruction, we do secure that another body is called in, apart from the promoters and their own architect, to see that a building is put up which will preserve the amenities and character of the place. Many citizens of London take advantage of the gardens at lunch time and in the evening to take their leisure there, get some refreshment, and see the beauties of the site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-12a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-13", "file": "debates1933-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6c792b364d0e275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1241.3", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Before you went out of office.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "What was the date in 1931 when the works were closed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-13", "file": "debates1933-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6c792b364d0e275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e trawlers would be prohibited and where they could go. They were entitled to go round Iceland and Greenland and the Russian Coast as well. It was typical of John Bull. He had drawn a huge red line over half the world and said, \"That is mine.\" It was typical of the imperialistic mind of the Tory party which divides up the world by means of a red or a blue line and says to the world \"That is mine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-13", "file": "debates1933-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6c792b364d0e275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Submission and approval of development schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "s raised by these Amendments and also by the new Clause to be proposed by the right hon. and learned Gentleman, I want to say a. word or two about the whole question. We understood that when this Bill was before the House at an earlier date the Minister of Agriculture had screwed up his courage to take a very sensible course, which he justified fully before the House and in which we supported him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-13", "file": "debates1933-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "6c792b364d0e275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1408.7", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "to say that on this matter the Government have not made out a case for putting this Amendment down in manuscript. Frankly, we did not know this was coming on as a manuscript Amendment nor have we had the same courteous treatment as other interests have had. The Government should have known that they would have reached this Bill at this time, because we have only just disposed of the previous Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-13a.1408.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-14", "file": "debates1933-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f8b1568ecfbb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-14a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the trade mark?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " co-operation of some very enterprising Lancashire firms, sea-island cotton is beginning to hold its own, and I cannot too strongly commend to hon. Members that if they want the most admirable, the lightest and most durable underwear they cannot do better than buy underwear of sea-island cotton. On another occasion, when it would be more in order. I should be very glad to give an exhibition of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-14a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-14", "file": "debates1933-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f8b1568ecfbb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-14a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "In so far as it is revenue producing it has my complete blessing. Nine hundred Arabs have been repatriated. The Government are going into the market to buy land for them. The cost of the land will rise. The cost of settling a man on the land may be, say £500—£500 multiplied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-14a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-17", "file": "debates1933-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0d725625f467724d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "riod of 10 years from 1st April, 1934, provided that if the Customs duty for any financial year after 31st March, 1935, exceeds fourpence a gallon and no excise duty is imposed for that year, or if for any year the Customs duty exceeds any excise duty by more than fourpence a gallon, then in respect of each such year the period of guarantee will be reduced by three months for each penny of excess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-17", "file": "debates1933-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0d725625f467724d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1575.13", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "volver. The right hon. Gentleman talked about Mr. Gandhi as the honoured guest of the Government in this country. I agree that he was an honoured guest of the Government in this country, and what did he do within three weeks of being the honoured guest of the Government in this country? He threatened to call on the civil disobedience movement. I can speak myself as a personal friend of Mr. Gandhi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1575.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-17", "file": "debates1933-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0d725625f467724d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "In all of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "On a, point of Order. May I ask the hon. Gentleman in what passage of my speech did I approve the suppression of free speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-17", "file": "debates1933-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0d725625f467724d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "iend's speech. He has enormously improved the situation and swept away many of the evils. He has done it without any of the disasters that were foretold. He has done it with the existing machinery of Central Indian Government, and he has done it by adopting methods pressed upon his predecessor by many of those to whom in other aspects of the Indian constitutional question he finds himself opposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-17", "file": "debates1933-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0d725625f467724d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of the Indian constitutional question he finds himself opposed. [ Interruption .] I never said so. I draw my own moral. But I should not like the Secretary of State's speech to go out to the world as if it was a proof that the policy that the Government have been pursuing is the same policy as that of the late Socialist Government. It is the opposite policy, and it has been completely successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-17a.1584.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1806.8", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have only asked one supplementary question, and these people are asking four or five supplementary questions every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1860.6", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about public safety?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "orry to sleep he would be breaking the law, it would be manifestly absurd to put him in such a position. I agree with hon. Members opposite that one wants the 10 hours' rest spent as we understand that rest should be spent, but I would point out to them that that will not be assured in any way by the proposed new Clause, which in certain circumstances might produce a greater discomfort to the man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1860.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1861.3", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "r for Aberavon (Mr. Cove) shakes his head. I cannot understand why hon. Members attach, as they rightly do, such importance to the enforcing of this law, and yet be prepared to stand aside and say that there is no reason to enforce it. I hear an hon. Member say that they are not all policemen. I should have thought that for the benefit of the workers whom they claim to represent if they can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1861.5", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "I protest against the hon. Gentleman saying that we on this side are not prepared to do our duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1861.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1904.2", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Too late.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " hearses. A vehicle can be exclusively used as a hearse, and only so exclusively used, not only if it is so constructed, but if it is so adapted afterwards. I can give the House my own experience. Up to last Christmas, I was using a motor car constructed for the ordinary use of passengers. I had a somewhat bad accident, and I disposed of the motor car this spring. It is now being used as a hearse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "I think I made it clear that I recognised the difference between this Amendment and the Amendment moved in Committee. All the same I do not think it amounts to much in the interest of the applicant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "I think I made it clear that I recognised the difference between this Amendment and the Amendment moved in Committee. All the same I do not think it amounts to much in the interest of the applicant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I think it is obvious that the licensing authority could not be expected on every occasion to give reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "stand was the view that I had expressed upon a similar Amendment in Committee. If he looked again at the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee, he would see that the sentence that he chose was what I had attributed to hon. Members opposite as their reason for supporting this Amendment, and therefore perhaps the arguments which the right hon. Gentleman built round that sentence lose some of their value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (OVERTIME, BANFURLONG).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "uld dig the coal off the airway, more satisfactorily and quickly than the men who were ordinarily available on the night shift. Those two men were ordinary coal-getters. The case that my hon. Friend has raised is not a parallel case because it refers to the regular necessity for dealing with falls on Sunday nights. The men in this case did not work overtime regularly but did it for this emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-19", "file": "debates1933-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "3880e82f6207c063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (OVERTIME, BANFURLONG).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "men concerned, as the hon. Member knows, had been dismissed on an entirely different issue. It was only after failing to get him reinstated that the complaint about overtime was raised. That is my reason for saying that I think those who raised it on 9th June, allowing for what the hon. Member says, were open to criticism, especially as now I am told the feeling in the district has been so strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-19a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-20", "file": "debates1933-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "72b952c0ba93e322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "aying football, and was not prepared to take the boy back? Is he also aware that this boy is an orphan; does he think it right that a boy who has been left without his parents should now be in a Barlinnie Prison on a charge of this kind; and is he prepared to condone action of this kind—the sentencing to imprisonment of boys between 16 and 18? I consider it is a most disgraceful thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1994.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-20", "file": "debates1933-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "72b952c0ba93e322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1996.4", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I consider that the conduct of the Secretary of State in this matter is of the most callous and brutal order. I consider that I am justified in protesting against this callous conduct and for the Member for Springburn (Mr. Emmott) to be \"hear, hearing\" it is an absolute disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-20", "file": "debates1933-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "72b952c0ba93e322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1996.6", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I consider it is scandalous that boys should be allowed to lie in prison for the simple offence of playing football.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.1996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-20", "file": "debates1933-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "72b952c0ba93e322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "raw his attention to the fact that he has increased the last item in the Schedule, relating to labour, from two to three. I appeal' to him that one of these three might come from Scotland, and act as the Scottish representatives. Scotland is distinct from England or Wales. England: has a. Trades Union Congress; so has, Scotland. Wales has none. Scotland has a distinct Labour party. Wales has none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-20", "file": "debates1933-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "72b952c0ba93e322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.2089.2", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One-ninth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "rying to do a little sum of proportion while the hon. Member for Aberdare (Mr. G. Hall) was speaking, and I am not certain that I was successful. He alluded to the fact that there are five representatives of Labour on the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, but on that Committee there are 40 members, and I think that the representation works out practically in the same proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-20a.2089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-21", "file": "debates1933-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b1f44bd92faf47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-21a.2148.3", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "One of the most backward countries of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-21a.2148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2285.1", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"There would he a row.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "preceding_text": "ost offices the ordinary customer is treated with incivility. But there is certainly a lack of any kind of personal association between the ordinary Post Office assistant and the ordinary customer. It does not amount to incivility, but you do not get in the Post Office for instance the sort of \"pushing\" of new postal facilities by recommendations to customers such as you get in a private business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s a little homily on business men, and the absurdity of the Union of Post Office Workers desiring to take any part in the management of the Post Office, and tried to infer that there was some great cleavage of opinion between my hon. Friend the Member for Lime-house (Mr. Attlee) and the postal workers. But this House, for good or for evil, drove the postal workers outside the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2312.1", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "preceding_text": "ts of view, on both artistic and practical questions, and among other points that came under our consideration was the very question which is the subject of this Amendment. I think we shall have to accept it as a fact that the days of Adelphi Terrace, as we know it at present, are numbered. Whether this Bill be passed or not, the existing buildings are likely to disappear within a very short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2312.1", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "preceding_text": "econd, namely, that the lower road should be a continuation of the one in front of Savoy Court, past the Shell-Mex building and on past the Adelphi, and that there should be another road on the level of the present Adelphi Terrace, and standing behind the lower road, would mean taking away such an immense depth of frontage that in all probability the promoters would decline to go on with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2321.3", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "erent from what the Amendment says. Apparently he was under the impression that under the Amendment the proposed roadway or thoroughfare now suggested would do away with the proposed roadway through the centre of the building which is to be erected. This Amendment does not say so. Therefore, I call the attention of the House to the fact that if the Amendment were carried in its present form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2335.3", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander AGNEW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander AGNEW", "preceding_text": "-development which we would all like to see. In that conviction, I would like to mention one point about which my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge University (Sir J. Withers) spoke. He said that the promoters were going to get a great deal out of this, and the public nothing. Actually, of course, a cursory study of the plans under the Bill would show what a very great deal the public will get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2335.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2336.2", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. MOLSON rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2339.0", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "AN HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You try it on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the cap fits any hon. Gentleman, he must put it on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2338.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2340.1", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "of the ardent opponents of the Bill, but to have amateur architects drawing plans for us in the House of Commons seems a little stupid. Let us lock at the architectural plan on the paper which we are now being asked to amend. The proposal is to drive a carriageway through the middle of a building, which would bring all the plaster down on the floor beneath and nobody would live on the floor above.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2349.2", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That Standing Orders 240 and 262 be suspended, and that the Bill be now read the Third time. I would only say that, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen who have been opposing this Bill make up their minds that the Divisions which have taken place have in effect settled the fate of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-24", "file": "debates1933-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "211807ec1f41f5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2349.4", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " the Bill. If hon. Members will think over the matter calmly, instead of in the somewhat heated atmosphere which always ensues after these discussions and excursions and alarums, they will be able to give a vote on the final stage of the Bill of which they would in their cooler judgment afterwards approve, instead of one which they might now give in heat, and of which they might repent at leisure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-24a.2349.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2450.0", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Who said that?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ADRIAN BAILLIE", "preceding_text": "f the low world price of petrol at that time. It is stated that this process of hydrogenation is obsolete and does not pay. I was sent a memorandum this morning which says: Direct hydrogenation of coal does not pay. If it did pay, there would be no need for the chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries to write to the\" Times\" suggesting that the process should be financed by the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2456.0", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "seen various estimates—to a sum of between £800 and £1,000 per miner per annum. That is a figure which everybody must take into account when we are invited to consider this project, however anxious we may be that it should go forward. It has been stated to me and to others that the actual number of miners to be employed is far less than the 1,000 which the Prime Minister suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2487.3", "colnum": "2487", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "perial Chemical Industries. There is a lot of talk about light industries coming to the South because rates are lower and costs are less, but those who know the facts know that that is not the real reason at all. I have become somewhat cynical about some of these gentlemen. As a matter of fact, they are more interested in long week-ends in London—some of them—than they are in business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2492.1", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruptions", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " wide welcome in the country. will go further and say, that as I sat here and heard many hon. Members this afternoon, I have, in the intervals of reflecting upon the questions which have been put to me, interested myself by imagining the kind of speeches that would have been made if this experiment had been started by a Labour Secretary for Mines, instead of by a Minister in a National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2492.3", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "h are indigenous in this country will be covered by the guarantee. Now let me turn to the issue which has attracted most attention, namely, that of hydrogenation. That simply means, of course, the addition of hydrogen to an unsaturated body. It is the treatment of coal or coal tar with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst at a temperature of about 450 degrees Centigrade and under great pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2505.1", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Laughter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " but I can quote fares which existed pre-War in regard to which there can be no denial. I have taken my wife and family down to Rothesay and have returned for 2s.—five of a family. That is impossible now because innumerable restrictions have been put on which did not exist when my family were young. They ran about the boat and escaped being required to pay. That sort of thing was recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-25", "file": "debates1933-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "1db4fe430311d425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2557.3", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "These are the middle of the dog days, and it would ill become me to keep my colleagues more than a minute or two longer. I join in this discussion, not because I am responsible for anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-25a.2557.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7", "colnum": "2589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": " the incident, I would say at once how much the Commissioner of Police and I regret that it should have occurred. At the same time, plain clothes police officers patrolling the streets in the night hours have a difficult duty to perform: and when, as in this case, a man carrying a suit case tries to hurry away at their approach, it cannot be said that they have not reasonable ground for suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7", "colnum": "2589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"In plain clothes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": " have occurred. At the same time, plain clothes police officers patrolling the streets in the night hours have a difficult duty to perform: and when, as in this case, a man carrying a suit case tries to hurry away at their approach, it cannot be said that they have not reasonable ground for suspicion. [HON. MEMBERS: Oh !\"] I am merely stating the fact that when a police officer is on patrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7", "colnum": "2589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very kind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "#8212;and in the end he had to be taken on foot to the police station nearby. Not until then did he give the explanation which the police had full power to require. There were no police on point duty in the neighbourhood at that hour. No more force was used that was necessary to overcome his resistance, which was violent. In the station he was given a, seat and a drink of water for which he asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2589.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.5", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider appointing a committee of inquiry to investigate this very serious matter, as it affects the life and liberty of individual citizens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.7", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "I have said that if this gentleman wishes the opportunity to see the Commissioner he will be perfectly ready to appoint an officer to see this gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.9", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING-OFFICER FITZPATRICK (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Move the Adjournment.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "preceding_text": "In the paper which I submitted to my right hon. Friend in the first instance it was said that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2592.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2651.1", "colnum": "2651", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "dence in the future of our currency and financial policy. I have the greatest admiration for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the way in which he has managed the finances of the country during the past year. I have the greatest admiration for his setting up of the Exchange Equalisation Account. I think it was a great idea, although I am bound to say that I do not quite know how it is operating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2656.3", "colnum": "2656", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n throughout the country which does not take what I might call the extreme view about public works, which does not take the view, for instance, expressed by the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol, that it is essential that all kinds of public works should be carried out in order to carry out an expansionist policy. That means that it would be a good thing to dig holes and fill them up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2662.1", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "always read its articles with interest, entertainment and admiration—very rarely with approval; but this morning I read it with marked approval. It says to the Government, \"Your Conference is over. What is your policy now? You are slacking. You worked well for about seven or eight months and you produced a tariff. Since then you have done nothing.\" It is a paper that supports the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2662.1", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Glass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "nity is concerned, otherwise they will have completely wrecked any effort which the Minister of Agriculture can make. It is all very well for the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to be the fairy prince of agriculture, helping Cinderella. As a matter of fact, I think it was the fairy godmother who really helped her. He can be the fairy godmother and the prince, too, but where is the golden slipper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2719.2", "colnum": "2719", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "preceding_text": "estion, \"What have you got in that bag?\" This young man by this time was completely exhausted. He asked for a glass of water, which was given to him, and as soon as he was sufficiently recovered he protested. The question of his innocence was established in a few moments, but when he asked for an apology for what had been done, Detective-Sergeant Fish said that he was damned if he would apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2726.1", "colnum": "2726", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON", "preceding_text": "eard a good deal of what has been going on the Continent of Europe. I have heard a good deal of what is going on to-day in police circles in the United States. To give the vast publicity which this case will give to the apparent misdoings, owing to a pure misapprehension, of two or three members of the police force very late at night, with a young man who was in the street and lost his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2726.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2730.2", "colnum": "2730", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "It was probably no less dark then than it was finally when he did accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2732.1", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. \"MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " may have been something wrong on both sides. Perhaps there was. The hon. and gallant Member for Hitchin (Sir A. Wilson)—I should have begun by congratulating him on his excellent maiden speech—spoke of his experience in these matters in the East End, and truthfully said that if this had been a workman or someone quite unknown the whole incident might have passed without any publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2736.1", "colnum": "2736", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "I should not have taken part in this discussion but for the speeches of one or two hon. Members who have been assailing the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2738.1", "colnum": "2738", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "tioned by the police, and out of all these people there are very few complaints. In fact, it is found that the ordinary investigation by the officers concerned is sufficient, and that there is no difficulty. Of course, it is a fact that in this case this aggrieved gentleman has been invited to take the course that many other people take of having their cases investigated. I repeat that invitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-26", "file": "debates1933-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ac54c5c838fab29b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2738.1", "colnum": "2738", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"None at all !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ceed. I trust the House will believe me when I say there will be no doubt as to the investigation which the Commisisoner of Police will make, and I hope, in fairness both to this gentleman who is concerned and to the officers of the police concerned, that this particular matter may go through the ordinary method of procedure, and that the House has enough confidence both in the Commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-26a.2738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2746.2", "colnum": "2746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "We have gone into this matter very carefully with competent technical advisers, and we are satisfied that there are no British subjects available who can teach British workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2746.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2748.1", "colnum": "2748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman serious in the statement that he will not cause inquiries to be made into the allocation in this case? Surely we are entitled to an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2748.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2752.3", "colnum": "2752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINES HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the coalowners are making strong representations against the operation of this convention; and is it not that fact which is chiefly influencing the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2752.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2759.0", "colnum": "2759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "As I stated in this House in the general Debate on the Police Bill, it is essential that gratuities of all kinds to individual officers, which lead to very grave difficulties, should be discontinued; and I think that if the House of Commons would realise that this money is being contributed in the main for the benefit of the whole force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2758.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2812.1", "colnum": "2812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "ound to carry on this work for the complete elimination of pests and of disease which is of particular importance with regard to the produce from the overseas part of the Empire. If the Board is to be continued and the overseas parts of the Empire do not contribute, I would say, let it be an English marketing board. It is not often that England comes into the Empire when we are speaking of Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2836.1", "colnum": "2836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " That may have been, as I say, his object, but the actual thing that he did was to walk into the Lobby to take shillings from the poorest people in this country. I am not saying that he did not do it with the highest motives. I have never imputed wrong motives to my political opponents. Their errors are not those of the heart but of the head. That is an old one. Let me return to the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2884.1", "colnum": "2884", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£500,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "For 50 minutes we have listened to dissertations against the retention of this Clause, dissertations on the position of distressed areas, dissertations on the possibilities of action according to the different complexion of different authorities, and dissertations on the possibility that if this Clause is passed it will cost the country £250,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-27", "file": "debates1933-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "a81f433cdbada558", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2912.5", "colnum": "2912", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Go on !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "Dairies and the great companies, but the distributors represented in this House by my hon. Friend the Member for St. Rollox (Mr. Leonard), the co-operative societies, I arranged with them an interchange of letters upon which I made a statement to the House at the time. If it would not bring me under the ban of those who consider that Ministers should never speak at any length in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-27a.2912.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-28", "file": "debates1933-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a617e7030a27753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-28a.3019.3", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE: JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Government? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "n three years—I call that a short-term agreement—further misfortune awaits the people of Lancashire. I have discussed the matter with one or two persons from India privately, and they share that view. We export £3,000,000 to Ceylon and she exports £12,000,000 to us, and the balance of trade with India is in our favour. We have the weapon in our hands if we knew how to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-28a.3019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-07-28", "file": "debates1933-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a617e7030a27753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-28a.3030.3", "colnum": "3030", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE: JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "preceding_text": "In the cotton industry—not taking the yen at its present value in our money, which would not be fair, because its purchasing power in Japan to-day is the same as it was 12 months ago—the lowest wages paid are from 10s. to 12s. a week and the wages rise to about 42s. That is the actual value of the wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-07-28a.3030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.21.9", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that every person on the register of the public assistance authorities who is in fact an insured unemployed person, is also included on the live register of the Employment Exchanges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.21.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ng air Powers in the world at the end of the War, and although she relies more than any other Power on the Air Arm in connection with some of her mandatory duties, her first line aircraft have been reduced to little more than 20 per cent. of her post-war strength, with the result that the United Kingdom now stands in the number of her military and naval aeroplanes only fifth in the list of States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ople very often fall out as to the means by which to attain their end, and we profoundly disagree with the right hon. Gentleman and his Government. The right hon. Gentleman has been rather badly served to-day by his political devils. I hope that his legal devils do not serve him so badly. If they had treated him better, he would never have made that pernicious attack on my hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " of that day simply because he took up an attitude against Mr. Disraeli. The recent letters published in connection with that episode in the life of Mr. Gladstone show that that denunciation was supported in very high quarters indeed in this country. To be told, as the hon. and learned Gentleman has been told to-day, that he is a friend of every country but his own because he happens——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ting Liberal pacifists. I am not sure that the right hon. Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) was not one of the bleaters. The point I want to make on this is that we are living in days, as I would remind the Lord President, when more people read than ever before, when more books are written than ever before, and when statesmen write about one another during their lifetime more than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "700 per cent. over the same period last year. Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, are extending their explosive works at Ardeer, in Ayrshire, where at present they are employing 2,000 men. Since 12th March armament shares have risen. On 21st October, that is, in seven months, they had risen as follow: The Birmingham Small Arms shares had gone up 109 per cent. Armament firms, I am talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What sort of action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " now still in possession of her neighbour's territory and is threatening war against the Russian Soviet Republic. I respectfully point out to the House that you cannot have respect for treaties if you sit down and accept that situation merely by getting a resolution through the League Assembly condemning what has taken place. I think that action ought to have been taken long ago to deal with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-07", "file": "debates1933-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "7b2c154c0f544658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "re he made his attack upon Germany. May I give an explanation to the Foreign Secretary about my omission to repeat the statement, which I had already made in another speech, that this country had done its best to carry out her obligations under disarmament. The Foreign Secretary admitted that I said so in my speech, and may I add that w hen I wrote an article afterwards for the Hearst Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-07a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.185.6", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nother breakfast has to be prepared at eight o'clock. At mid-day the son comes from work at two o'clock or 2.30, at the end of the two-shift system and a meal has to be prepared for him. The husband and daughter come in at other hours and meals have to be prepared for them. The household, therefore, becomes in fact a small cook shop. We object to that sort of thing happening in our family affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "tain considerations in relation to this question which have been lost sight of. I would like to remind the Committee, first of all, that there is one of the leading trade unions of this country which has entered into specific agreements with employers' associations providing for the working of a two-shift day. I say at once that that relates only, of course, to the employment of adult work-people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Not because it is right\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "p is in fact being inflicted upon young persons. I know a good deal about the working of factories and about the feelings of the people who work in them, and I challenge Members of the Opposition to go into any industrial area in this country and present to young people an opportunity of working from 6 to 2 or from 2 to 10 and finding out for themselves whether they would not grab the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " we used to be dyed with when we were politically unconscious. Now we have arisen to a sense of the situation, and we ask the hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green, who objects to the Government's policy, why he has been supporting it so much. Why is he sitting on those benches? You cannot have your cake and eat it; you cannot pretend to be against the Government to-day and with them to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ave been astonished to find, in my own division, young men of 22 and 23 years of age working a full week in the textile mills for as low as 15s., on the plea that they are still little piecers waiting for men's jobs. As long as young men of 21, 22 and 23 years of age are employed for six days a week at full time for 15s. I am not very much impressed by Japanese competition consequent on low wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " a few years ago you would find that they contradict every word they have said lately on the subject. I am a little amazed at what the hon. Baronet said on this issue. He seems to wobble. Does it not stand to reason that, if Free Trade in principle is good, we ought to adhere by it irrespective of the Government in power? I make the confession on my own behalf that I am an unrepentant Free Trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-08", "file": "debates1933-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "755fd6d98e137b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": " for it at all. Who has complained at any time that the rights of Parliament were being swept away by the shortening of the procedure with regard to private Bills? What is the reason behind the Government's proposal? One cannot see the motive. As far as I can gather, some of those behind the Minister are disappointed that the Measure does not go further and close down public activities altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-08a.249.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-09", "file": "debates1933-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd04334c32b790d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. MELLER", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for his reply and for his offer of assistance, may I ask him whether he will bear in mind the fact that the great difficulty in dealing with heath and common fires is due to lack of information as to who is responsible for taking the matter in hand Generally speaking, the calls were——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.300.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-09", "file": "debates1933-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd04334c32b790d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confer with the War Office authorities as to the forest area in the Aldershot district? The Frimley district in Surrey, which is in my division and adjoins Aldershot, has suffered very severely from fires——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-09", "file": "debates1933-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd04334c32b790d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STAUTS OF ALIENS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How long would you allow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "uralisation papers and become a British citizen. What we feel is that, in so far as it is possible, the English woman who marries a foreigner should be given the option for a certain time to decide whether she will take up the nationality of her husband or, if she does not wish to continue to reside in the foreign country. will come back to this country or to some other part of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-09", "file": "debates1933-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd04334c32b790d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STAUTS OF ALIENS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "nisation has made out a case, and their views should be heard in the House of Commons. We are only playing with the question, and a fuller Measure ought to have been brought forward. I have made my attitude clear, and I shall go into the Lobby and vote against the Bill, not because I do not think that it is a good Bill, but because I believe that it is not what is demanded by those who ask for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-09a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-10", "file": "debates1933-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6095772c670864b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Generally the whole lot.:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "oncession, that an approved society can use its surplus for the payment. What does that mean? Take a miners' approved society. It cannot do it. Take my society. If we had our members, as we have got them in Birmingham, Coventry and London, we could easily do it, because there is little unemployment in those places. But we have members in Sunderland, half of them unemployed and in Glasgow a fourth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-10", "file": "debates1933-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6095772c670864b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "aken to restore its stability we should fail in our first duty to the insured. No Government with any sense of responsibility would have hesitated for a moment to take action in these circumstances. The action which was taken was in three directions. There was, first, the reduction of the benefits for women. I have heard no word of criticism of that to—day—a very striking circumstance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-10", "file": "debates1933-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6095772c670864b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "into arrears, but here is a practical relief which is really big, in proportion to the slight financial risk that one is taking, in view of the general situation. With the assistance of my advisers, I think that it is now possible to make arrangements for a further extension of the period of grace. I propose therefore that there shall be a further extension to the 31st March in the year following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-10", "file": "debates1933-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6095772c670864b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will allow me to continue, I think he will see how it works out. The only difference that I am proposing is that the period of grace shall be extended for another six months to the 31st March of the year following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-10", "file": "debates1933-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6095772c670864b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. MELLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. MELLER", "preceding_text": "ould be glad if they could have unemployment insurance and the benefits of sickness insurance, who, in the past, have contributed by taxes to the support of that portion of Health Insurance which is the State's contribution, have to—day no opportunity, no alternative but themselves to seek relief by way of the public assistance committee. Do not let us give way on this question of sentiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-10a.504.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Give the names.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Who were they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I cannot stop at this moment to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "If to be enabled to see two sides of a question is to be a partisan on one side, then there is perhaps some foundation for the hon. Gentleman's charge. I endeavoured to show, before condemning the action of Japan, that at least I understood what had led to it, and my condemnation was outspoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "stion is to be a partisan on one side, then there is perhaps some foundation for the hon. Gentleman's charge. I endeavoured to show, before condemning the action of Japan, that at least I understood what had led to it, and my condemnation was outspoken. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] If, after that, the hon. Gentleman persists, I say flatly that there is not the slightest foundation for his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.584.3", "colnum": "584", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"The British Empire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": ", but they could not be regarded as offensive weapons. The proposition was made that tanks over 20 tons should be abolished. How many did it mean that you would give up? We were told at the time that that proposal involved giving up one tank. That was prodigal generosity. That was allowing the spirit of peace to run away with you. What was the sacrifice you made? What were you prepared to give up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "For the moment, I think I am nonplussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " change. I think that the Germans were exceedingly foolish in leaving the Conference at all, and I shall be very glad—for it is vital to the peace of Europe that it should be so—to see them return at a very early date. If they are to have equality of treatment in regard to armaments, what follows? It can only be conceded in one of two ways. Either we must disarm or Germany must re-arm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Birmingham !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ese deliberations between Governments, and exchanges of view, no Government can compel any other Government to accept risks which it believes are too great. We can put our case, we can argue, we can expound views, we can look round, with them, the whole of the problem and weigh up the pros and cons; but we cannot—and this is the difference between going to Hastings and going to Geneva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "not laid down any bold declaration of policy on the necessity for limiting expenditure. In general, looking at the whole as from a distance, during the last year and a-half, although certain members of the British Government have worked zealously and hard at Geneva, in the main there is not that earnest urge on the part of the British Cabinet as a whole which is really essential to secure success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ery good cause,\" that is their excuse for policies arising out of their suspicions. We have had a general improvement in our international relationships up to two years ago, but then a Conservative Government came into power with a huge majority. Am I not justified in assuming that Japan would begin to see that she would have a better chance in Manchuria than she had had in the previous two years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.635.7", "colnum": "635", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "inister who is not at present in the House, that His Majesty's then Government did not support the policy of unilateral disarmament on the ground not only that it was a foolish and an unsafe policy, but that it could not lead to peace in the world. I wonder what really becomes of the Motion which is put upon the Paper, because the latter part of it is really an argument for unilateral disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.635.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a yard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rst, are the people who ought to know. Some people think we should not have had the War in 1914 if France had known beforehand with certainty, and, above all, if Germany had known, beforehand with certainty, that we should fight. Let us avoid that difficulty next time by knowing clearly beforehand how far we can allow Germany to exercise force and change the treaties, and how far they must not go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name the firm!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "ide the gospel of militarism and war, that country is arming at the present moment ac headlong speed with the aid of supplies of spelter and nickel and scrap iron which are being poured into her by British capitalists and the capitalists of other countries; and she is being aided by British armament firms, who are advertising in Germany arms which are forbidden Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "s the reason put forward for mechanisation. There are only two possible ways by which you can test the degree or the fact of disarmament, which implies, of course, abolishing something. The first is to test Whether there has been any total abolition of a classified kind of arm, and as to that, of course, no question arises in this country. The other is to take the total expenditure upon armaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ing the number of men if you mechanise your forces and reduce the number of men. If one takes the total expenditure and compares it, not with 1913 as the right hon. Gentleman did, but with what is more usually taken in calculating these figures, the average pre-War figure; if you take the post-War figures and reduce them by the proper factors owing to the rise in prices since the War——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "163;70,200,000 pre-War has now grown—being reduced in accordance with the wholesale index figure of 100—in 1932 and in 1933 to £108,900,000. If anybody examines those figures it is perfectly clear that one cannot say, and it would not be the fact to say, that this country has disarmed since the pre-War period. Whether hon. and right hon. Gentlemen like it or not, that is the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " been allowed to grow as rapidly as in some other countries. That is perfectly true, and no one that I know has ever suggested that they have been allowed to grow as rapidly as in other countries. Fortunately, we have not yet been stampeded into the fresh race for armaments into which some countries, like America, with her recent naval expenditure, have been stampeded. Those being the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Could the hon.and learned Gentleman tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "oon, when he asked what was the use of asking this country to give up police bombing if you propose to have an international police force. I might ask him a question: \"What is the good of asking garroters not to garrote people in the streets, if you are going to have a police force? \"The very object of a police force is to stop individual anarchic action and to enforce a co-operative peace system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What with?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "piece of paper. I quite appreciate that some hon. Members think that the League of Nations is a rotten idea, that the Disarmament Conference should be abandoned and that we should get back to the old pre-war system. I quite appreciate that attitude of mind, but there is the other attitude of mind that, having bound ourselves by those solemn covenants we have got, in honour, to support that system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bombs! War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ons is a rotten idea, that the Disarmament Conference should be abandoned and that we should get back to the old pre-war system. I quite appreciate that attitude of mind, but there is the other attitude of mind that, having bound ourselves by those solemn covenants we have got, in honour, to support that system. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What with?\"] With economic boycott and with armed forces if necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you call a general strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "nt time. It is not a question of this country selecting what it will do; it is pledged in honour. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain) was pointing out the other day our obligations under the Treaty of Locarno. We are pledged in honour under the Treaty of Locarno, until it is altered by negotiation, to take certain action in the event of certain occurrences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " the technical experts their opportunity, which they used to the full, to defeat any possibility of a disarmament programme. Then there fol- lowed the private talks which the right hon. Gentleman initiated at the Beau Rivage Hotel, which became known the Beau Rivage talks, from which Germany was excluded, and, being excluded, of course she had her suspicions aroused This was in the summer of 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "d in capital ships, a third in sub- marines, a quarter in cruisers and a quarter in destroyers, and which would, so far as this country is concerned, have meant a reduction in some 76 units in the Navy. That was rejected and an alternative proposal put up accepting a reduction in submarines, because of course we have always been keen to get rid of the submarine which is the thing we are afraid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "nest knowledge to everyone in this country that the weapon we were most frightened of was the submarine. Instead of that we proposed the substitution, after 1937, of smaller battleships for those battleships which we have at present. I promised the right hon. Gentleman that I would let him start as near 20 minutes past ten as I could, and I must, therefore, hurry through the rest of the sad story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-13", "file": "debates1933-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b292d6ef7ddd052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "n is trying to justify his statement is one which is almost more amazing than the original misstatement itself. He tries to excuse his statement by referring to the fact that the actual amount of our annual expenditure expressed in coin of the realm in 1933 is greater than it was in 1914. Then he offers some calculations which are perfectly fantastic and which I will now proceed to try to correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-13a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.739.4", "colnum": "739", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: 'Withdraw!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "If to be enabled to see two sides of a question is to be a partisan on one side, then there is perhaps some foundation for the hon. Gentleman's charge. I endeavoured to show, before condemning the action of Japan, that, at least I understood what had led to it, and my condemnation was outspoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.739.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "stion is to be a partisan on one side, then there is perhaps some foundation for the hon. Gentleman's charge. I endeavoured to show, before condemning the action of Japan, that, at least I understood what had led to it, and my condemnation was outspoken. [HON MEMBERS: 'Withdraw!'] If, after that, the hon. Gentleman persists, I say flatly that there is not the slightest foundation for his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.739.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member's speech was directed not so much to the abolition of aldermen as to the institution of a system of Proportional Representation for them. He gave the case of his own local council, and said that under the present system of election of aldermen it might be possible to have a council with a majority contrary to the will of the electors. I do not regard that as seriously as he, does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": " to the Minister that all that we think and know in connection with political propaganda in this country leads us to urge him to change the voting date from the 1st November to some time in June. I repeat that it would he safer for the people in their voting, and it would eliminate much of the necessity for all parties in local elections to provide transport, and therefore would save money —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "es birds, who watches them throughout the year, listens to their song in the early Spring and watches their joy in the mating season, must feel that a wild bird caught by birdlime or in a net and placed in a cage, however much the owner may like it, cannot be anything but a miserable captive. No man confined to prison for life can suffer anything like what is suffered by a bird confined to a cage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They must be caught first!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "ent plea for the bird-financiers in his district. He made a statement to the effect that certain birds were particularly suited to cage life. If there are birds suited to cage life, then surely those birds could be bred in the cage and the hon. Member's bird-fanciers can thus have their caged birds, because there would be no cruelty if the birds had never known anything else except life in a cage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "Bill to prevent bird-fanciers having cage-bred birds. All the Bill does is to prevent people catching wild birds and confining them in cages for purposes of profit. The Bill seeks to prevent the wholesale caging of birds for the purposes of profit, and that is all. Perhaps I ought not to be speaking on this subject. I myself may be charged with cruelty because I am a sportsman. I shoot wild birds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-14", "file": "debates1933-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfafdcda6f520b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "ain of the wild birds included in this Schedule and my neighbour keeps other scheduled birds of a different type, and if I tell him that I propose to develop the breed of a particular type of bird and offer to exchange them, on terms, for some of his, then, however, the law may choose to interpret that exchange, it is a bargain between two persons and it has all the elements of buying and selling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-14a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "price for his product, which will, of course, have reactions ultimately on the demand, or he will have to look for other markets for his product; and, in looking for other markets, as I am told they are already doing, the tendency will be to buy their manufactured goods, not from Great Britain, which previously was their principal source of supply, but from Germany and other continental countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"For dip?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "e no glut when there is not sufficient for the people. I know as a fact that in my city of Bradford the poor people, particularly the unemployed in the poorer areas, were able to buy the cheaper cuts of bacon 12 months ago at 4d. a lb. For 4d. you could give a splendid meal to the whole of the family. We in Yorkshire try to be a thrifty people. We do not have butter with our bacon. We use the fat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "REPORT, 27th June, 1933; col. 1345, Vol. 279.] The steps which the Government took were the Order which we are discussing to-day. Only a few weeks ago at Grimsby, the Minister of Agriculture had to admit that, in spite of all this trumpeting about the Act, those who said that it would be nugatory were right and that the price of fish in Sep- tember was down as compared with September of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "de. I have the figures here, and, if the House will allow me, I will quote them. The quantity imported from October to May, 1931–32, was 400 cwt., valued at £1,200, while during the same period in 1932–33 it was 1,000 cwt., valued at £2,400; and the landings from the local boats were growing at the same time. These foreign imports were necessary in order to create the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "cannot see that it can do other than depress them when Members of the Liberal party or the party opposite make suggestions, I am sure unwittingly, which would tend to make the inshore fishermen of Scotland think that such an Order as we are moving to-night is of no avail. Those who are at present responsible for the Government of Scotland are very fully alive to the needs of the inshore fishermen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARCLAY-HARVEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same applies to miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARCLAY-HARVEY", "preceding_text": " point, and that it is quite unfair that one branch of industry or section of the population should thrive at the expense of another section of the community. That is why they feel so intensely when that particular argument is used. If the hon. Members doubts it I would ask him to come up to the North of Scotland and see what the farmers in that part of the world have to say to him on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Oat products. The Noble Lady will be interested to know that the quantities have gone down to practically the same extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-15", "file": "debates1933-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a0b158fab80f602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "orm of grain stuffs. If my hon. Friends want to get wise on this subject, I can commend to them an excellent book by the Noble Lord, her husband. The Government are doing a very wrong thing in the way in which they are tackling this difficult problem of agriculture. Certainly it is a serious thing to stir up feeling, as this is bound ultimately to do, and as it is doing in the case of bacon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-15a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-21", "file": "debates1933-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "05a3b2ef5d4f3a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-21a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "g's Speech either that those negotiations are going satisfactorily or that they are terminated, but we are told nothing, and I should like the Prime Minister to tell us what is the present position in regard to the Russian negotiations. On the question of foreign affairs, I wish to join with what I understand is the intention of the Prime Minister and of the Leader of the Liberal Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-21a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "them is the unanimous Hindu opposition to the White Paper policy. A year ago it was not conscious, it was not united, it did not understand. Now it does understand, and here am I, going to-morrow afternoon to speak to a meeting called by the Hindu organisations here against this White Paper and to support their view that the White Paper will produce a system worse than that which India has to day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " governing class in India directed towards finding in the safeguards the cause of every sort of blame which otherwise would fall upon them? Paper safeguards are of no use. Do let us think whether we could not provide a more genuine safeguard against these risks. Perhaps I might quote a few words from a paper in India which I always read, and which I think is the best paper produced in India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.97.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "in the past. Let me quote from one of his earlier speeches outside this House. In the Albert Hall a few years ago the right hon. Gentleman said: It is a hideous act of self-mutilation, astounding to every nation in the world. The Princes, the Europeans, the Moslems, the depressed classes, the Anglo-Indian— none of them know where to turn in face of their apparent desertion by Great Britain.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I would ask my hon. Friend the Member for South Kensington (Sir W. Davison), with whom I have, generally, the happiest relations, to remember that I have not in this Debate supported the White Paper proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "preceding_text": "I quite remember that, but I also distinctly remember speeches in which hon. Members opposite said that the White Paper was bristling with safeguards, and they criticised it on those grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "o me to be entirely irrelevant. The right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) pops in and out of this House like a jack-in-the-box. He pays us a visit about once every three months, makes a speech on some topic, and then clears away. The right hon. Gentleman has a great knowledge of India after spending about three months in that country, not much more, and that was some eight or ten years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-22", "file": "debates1933-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "799f97f0b0f42204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " of those great complexities of race and caste which have to be faced in India. I cannot go through the whole list of examples, but in Egypt the democratic institutions which in our wisdom we decided to force upon that people have been abandoned in favour of some dictatorial arrangement. Go to the Assyrians and ask them if they are happier since Britain abdicated her mandate and her power in Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-22a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "ish unemployment. I have no doubt that if ever there is another Socialist Government he will introduce such a Bill, and he will have the honour of sharing with Canute the notoriety of those who order the tide not to come in but take no practical steps to prevent it doing so. I am glad hon. Members of the Labour party are here, because I would like to know what constructive proposals they have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "n to be dealt with merely by putting on a tariff to prevent Japanese goods coming into England. One realises that to the full. The fundamental difficulty of the cotton trade, as of many of our iron and steel trades, I believe, is going to be not to preserve the home market, which we can protect, but to preserve the export market, which we cannot protect by means of tariffs imposed in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "ur cotton trade in the markets of the world is to-day not only threatened but is being practically annihilated. How are the Government going to deal with the situation? If the Japanese can compete with us in our own country, obviously no amount of reorganisation of the industry, no reductions of wages—and such things are wrong—can possibly save us. What are the Government going to do 7", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ave listened with very great care, as, I am sure, has the whole House, to each speech made by representatives of Lancashire, but I am sorry to say that, having listened with great care, not only to-night but also on another occasion when on the Adjournment of the House the subject was raised, the only practical suggestions which I have heard made were those of my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "preceding_text": "sist they will have my support in so doing. But there is, I hardly like to call it a \"sin of omission, \"but an omission to which I wish to draw attention, in that there is no mention of any proposals for reconstituting the Second Chamber, or so restoring the balance of the Constitution as to prevent the use or abuse of dictatorial powers by a temporary majority in this Commons House of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Carlton Club?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "preceding_text": "nt and will actually be done if they and their followers are given the opportunity. Taking the points very briefly, we understand that they now frankly admit that their policy is a revolutionary one. They advocate a Socialist dictatorship. Their Prime Minister would be a Socialist figurehead to be made or unmade at the wish and behest of a body outside Parliament and not responsible to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " there must be something wrong with the Lords or they would not want to reform it. Others want the House of Lords to remain as it exists at present. The whole argument put forward by those Tories who want either a reformed House of Lords or the present House of Lords seems to be that they are in fear of what is likely to happen if another Labour Government is elected by the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-23", "file": "debates1933-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8d55c9f21dceac21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e need try, in this House, to create fear in the minds of people outside or in the minds of hon. Members u he know of these things, by suggesting that if a Labour Government were to come back it would pass emergency powers Acts to do certain things. We know that those powers only require Proclamation in order to be put into operation, because they already stand on the Statute Book of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-23a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-24", "file": "debates1933-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7da73134e9a9fe33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "than you put in, and if we suggest that the pint pot, which contains the goods produced by the people, should also contain the products of those now unemployed, they say that that would be uneconomic. I have here a quotation from a source that is not inclined to labour but to very strict financial rectitude, namely, the \"Economist.\" It says: In spite of definite evidence of trade recovery \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-24", "file": "debates1933-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7da73134e9a9fe33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "e proposals put forward in the King's Speech with regard to housing. Housing has been closed down so far as the municipalities are concerned. Since last March, when the contracts made under previous dispensations came to an end, we have only had 1,208 local authority houses erected. The Minister of Health is going to trust to private enterprise. It is thought to be wasteful to use national credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-24", "file": "debates1933-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7da73134e9a9fe33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "m obliged. I hear the Leader of the Opposition saying with great authority on behalf of his party that the country is facing one now. I might perhaps register that. Conceivably that may influence the wandering ghosts who are now considering what sort of habitation they would prefer. Is it disputed that two years ago this country was facing the gravest disaster that had threatened it since the War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-24a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "y as well as by making the things which he sells dearer. The Minister of Agriculture has, therefore, I submit, made a false point. His speeches are always interesting, but this was an occasion, if he will permit me to say it, when his speech, like so many of his speeches in Parliament, was fluent, was confident, was plausible, but was unsound. Now I will say a few words about the Labour Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear!\"] Well, I followed the Minister for Agriculture, who also spoke upon this same Amendment. In this Amendment there is very much of which we approve and with which we concur, but we have our own Amendment on the Paper, to be moved to-morrow, which expresses the situation in the way in which we would desire to see it expressed. Therefore, we shall vote against this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman had done me the courtesy of saying he was going to refer to what I had said on this subject I should have looked up the speech that I made here on this subject subsequent to my own statement, which I expect the right hon. Gentleman has by him, in which I said that I would not go on giving people money for ever without knowing what their position was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.7", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "On a subsequent date I stood at this Box and said that the national executive of the Labour party had met and decided that the interpretation of our resolution at Scarborough was that there should be no means test, and that the only test that should apply to a man or woman was an offer of work. I made that statement here subsequent to the other, and as I am a loyal Member of the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.10", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " do with the Anomalies Bill; it has to do with the transitional benefit of people going to the public assistance committees. My right hon. Friend made it perfectly clear then that the only means test that he or any of us would support was that if a person on transitional benefit was found to be possessed of his own means of living we were not going to vote for the continuance of public assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.555.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Test work!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am perfectly certain myself that if we want to test a man because we think he is cheating us it will be perfectly easy to offer him a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: is 3s. 6d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will feel that, if the little book which the hon. Member for Stockton (Mr. Macmillan) has written is up to the sample which we have had to-day of his views, it will be of very great interest, and I am quite sure that the sixpences which we may spend upon it will not by any means be wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruptior.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "he Post Office constitute for this year a record, which shows that, side by side with mounting economic activity, there is at any rate an increased opportunity for leisure. Looking at a couple more figures which give one some cause for satisfaction, the-acceptances of the great clearing banks have increased by £27,000,000 in the 10 months of this year, an increase of 33⅓ percent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.613.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Improvement.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " but was still very bad. Iron and steel industry. Employment showed a slight decline and continued very bad. Engineering, shipbuilding and metal industries. In the engineering industry employment showed a further improvement but continued very slack. Textile industry. In the cotton industry employment was still bad, though there was some improvement. Going through the whole issue, what do we find?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-27", "file": "debates1933-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "16374c2c7b6f5659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " which the Minister of Agriculture must fail. The Lord President of the Council in a speech last week said that force would be met by force, and that, in a struggle between extreme left and extreme right, the right would win. I am not so sure about that. Even if it is correct that the right would win, that would mean the triumph of reaction and the desolation of the civilisation which we now know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-27a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liberal party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "preceding_text": " or group tariff reductions, the Conference was really fatally stricken so far as those matters were concerned. The Lord President of the Council yesterday interested and delighted the House by referring to the method of the Greek chorus in a Greek play, and that reminds me of an excellent parody of a Greek play in which a man is being murdered inside a house, and the chorus is commenting outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " This is obviously going to be the most troubled period in history. Those who wish peace and quiet in their lives above all things, have obviously chosen the wrong period in which to be born. I suggest that those who think of the present period of less serious unemployment, financial instability and trade depression as the arrival of a new era of permanent security are living in a fool's paradise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "to deal with supply and demand, and that something would always come in to kill the success of that sort of thing. I would like to remind him that the whole of his speech, apart from that, was a suggestion in the matter of houses, smallholdings and allotments, that the Government should artificially interfere with the supply of these particular things he was keen on having—every one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That they are ineffective !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "I have pointed out that the Amendment says that the Gracious Speech contains no effective policy on the part of the Government to promote the restoration of world trade. Does that mean that the measures which we have proposed are ineffective, or that, if they have been effective, they will not advance the cause of world trade? What do the words mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " be of utility to the country that possesses it, or is the Free Trade doctrine so complete that it amounts to this, that in no circumstances whatever is the power to impose tariffs of any use whatever in bargaining? It used to be part of the Free Trade doctrine that tariffs as a retaliatory weapon were useless and did more harm to the user of the weapon than to the one against whom they were used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Middlesbrough!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN EVANS", "preceding_text": " to the steel industry we did it on the understanding that they were not to penalise the steel users.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd November, 1933, col. 330, Vol. 283.] The whole argument of the President of the Board of Trade there was that the renewed prosperity, as he had seen it in Sheffield, was due to Protection. We all know that Sheffield is not in truth the heart of the steel trade at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " of the country. Nothing will stop recovery, but will it be slow and jerky, the movement of a great and enterprising nation hobbled by Protection, or will it be smooth and rapid? No one can tell until we know the policy of the Government. Ottawa is the unsurmountable obstacle to any rational system of Protection, and, at the same time, it is the rock upon which the World Economic Conference split.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "griculture's simile, the farmer's motor car is going off the road, not on the right side, but on the side of the cliff? Is it merely the malignity of fate? No; it is economic cause and effect—the unescapable consequence of the policy which the Government are pursuing. It is the catastrophic effect of the sudden application of huge quotas and tariffs to this country, the most important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "say—I would rather say—different political and economic convictions. When the nation is faced with a great crisis, to the solution of which all political and economic considerations must be subordinated, there is much to be said for a Government of men of all parties uniting for the achievement of a specific object. Such a Government as the present is frankly an opportunist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-28", "file": "debates1933-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a636b461e4cf0fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.828.5", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "t. That is all very well when they are in opposition. I have a leaflet in my hands in which the unemployed of Leeds were exhorted to rally to their meetings in their thousands and protest against the Government's attack on the unemployed, and it says: \"Down with all traitors of the unemployed.\" The leaflet is dated 14th July, 1931. There sit two of the traitors. It really is a little futile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-28a.828.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "alf of the unemployment problem in Lancashire might be solved if our people had more money to buy these goods. The hon. Gentleman knows very well that there is no limit to the requirements of men and women as regards the goods produced by the Lancashire textile industry. If they had a sufficient supply of money, I think our girls would probably get a new dress every month, and why should they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " the main factor. For example, Lancashire, paying about twice as much wages as the Indian cotton mills pay, could easily compete against the Indian cotton mills if only there were no tariffs and there had been no boycott. Most Lancashire manufacturers would say that, given a fair and equal field, they could compete in price against the Indian cotton mills in spite of the great difference in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": ".\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd November, 1933; col. 295, Vol. 283.] At the last election my Division was placarded by my opponent with the words: \"Buy British.\" That placard carried weight, but it failed to keep me from coming to this House. When we are told by an hon. and gallant Member of this House that the merchants of Manchester are going out of their way to push Japanese cotton goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"There are !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "t hon. Members forget that fact. If we had not embarked on the fiscal policy which is generally in operation, Lancashire would have received no protection at all. Whatever we did about Japanese competition in other parts of the world, we should have found that even in Lancashire itself, in the great cities of Liverpool and Manchester, cotton goods made in Japan were selling over the counter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is bad enough!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "all. Whatever we did about Japanese competition in other parts of the world, we should have found that even in Lancashire itself, in the great cities of Liverpool and Manchester, cotton goods made in Japan were selling over the counter—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"There are !\"] Perhaps hon. Members will allow me to point out that it would have been a, great deal worse but for the 20 per cent. protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-29", "file": "debates1933-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fa6fdbe0558fb340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "That was carried. And not only that, but we have heard expressions of opinion from representative speakers. Here is a Motion, advanced by supporters of the Government, in which we are again invited to consider the claims for increased armaments in respect of one arm of the Service. Not so long ago the Admiralty got in with its extra cruisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-29a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-30", "file": "debates1933-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "814832498e0faa29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the answer, may I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-11-30", "file": "debates1933-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "814832498e0faa29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE ESTIMATES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He is the Chairman.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander AGNEW", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-30", "file": "debates1933-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "814832498e0faa29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "at the hon. Member for East Birkenhead (Mr. White) made the slip that he did with regard to the £250, because it created a cheerful atmosphere in the Debate which it has so far lacked. I rise, first, to support the Bill and to congratulate the Minister on his very comprehensive and excellent statement. He should feel satisfied, because there sems to he no violent or adequate opposition to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-30", "file": "debates1933-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "814832498e0faa29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " I ask the House to contemplate what the Amendment means. In the language of one of the organs of the Labour party, we are led to believe that if the Amendment is adopted it pledges the Labour party to abandon altogether the principle of insurance—and without a test. It will mean a universal dole; anybody and everybody can say, \"I have been out of work for a few days or for a longer period.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-11-30", "file": "debates1933-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "814832498e0faa29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "; I have been moderate in my addresses—more moderate than they. I say this to them, and I say it frankly: \"You have plans for banking, but no plans for the unemployed. Why?\" The only answer that I can see is that banking is 10 years ahead, but that plans to deal with the unemployed would mean that they would be committed to them now, and, therefore, they are not committed to anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-11-30a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-01", "file": "debates1933-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "bb2f3309a1cff93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "roposal to advance the school age a term at a time, three months a year, so that at the end of three years we should reach the maximum age of 15. With regard to the actual date I have, with perhaps childish confidence and with the desire to pay a compliment to the Board of Education, left this date to the discretion and the wisdom of the Board. My view is that the 1st April would be the best date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-01", "file": "debates1933-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "bb2f3309a1cff93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "t it would not be in Order for him to put it in the Bill. I agree it could not be put in the Bill in the House of Commons sense until the necessary Financial Resolution had been passed, but at least he could have shown his intentions by printing in italics in the Bill the same proposal that was in my Noble Friend's Bill. The real truth of the matter is that he knows his Bill is quite impracticable", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-01", "file": "debates1933-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "bb2f3309a1cff93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Obviously, in a district which has become derelict as the result of strikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-01", "file": "debates1933-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "bb2f3309a1cff93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1248.7", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "881. The progress has been perfectly astounding. In elementary education in 1881, there were 3,000,000 children; in 1932, the number was 5,500,000. In secondary schools, in 1914, there were 187,000, and now we have more than 450,000. In technical schools in 1914 there were 17,000, and now the number is 36,000. In universities in 1920 there were 4,900 young people and to-day there are 6,200.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-01a.1248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unless they go in for politics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "t all. Had they lived in the early 19th century and had they been craftsmen as men were in those days, they could have turned their hands to various occupations, or indeed, not having long left the soil, they might have emigrated to some other part of the world, but that resource is not available to-day. Those men are completely helpless, and the longer they are idle the more helpless they become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is perpetuating the system.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "get that principle rejected by any ordinary meeting of citizens. The Church has condemned it. The Church has said that, in so far as family life still remains, this principle is destroying it. I have actually known young men to be so oppressed by the humiliation of having to live upon the earnings of their brothers and sisters that they have contracted marriage on 23s. a week in order to avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"The Minister of Health !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " charge which is made in the Liberal Amendment and which was repeated by the hon. Member for East Birkenhead when he said that the Government had given a pledge which had not been carried out. I challenge any hon. Member to name or to point to any pledge which has been given in this respect by any Member of the Government which has not been more than carried out by what we have put into this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1357.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1361.5", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Really. That is entirely absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the children. The right hon. Gentleman\"— that was Lord Snowden— once said that this business of making the family take care of the unemployed meant that individuals had to bear what was a national responsibility.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th September, 1931; col. 634, Vol. 256.] There were over 200 of us who voted against that Measure, and what I said had nothing whatever to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Query !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NUNN", "preceding_text": "hipyard and gets a dozen men during a morning asking for certificates, he naturally resents it, but I think it would be possible for the Ministry to have printed books of tickets, with a blank space for the man's name, indicating that he has called, and if those books were supplied on request by the Ministry to employers of labour, some simple scheme like that could easily get over the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, that interruption is not really relevant to the matter under discussion. I stand for the principle that the individual should be the unit, as is the case in connection with Income Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ny member of that Board, or whether the matter can be dealt with by Parliament at all, or whether the members of, this Public Assistance Board are to be treated as though they were judges. I should like an answer to those questions to-morrow. Apart entirely from the merits or demerits of the Bill, I think it will be agreed that the Government are assuming an unemployed register of 2,500,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "the beginning of the present century, when the late right hon. Campbell-Bannerman, who was then Prime Minister, stated that there were 13,000,000 on the verge of starvation. A generation almost has passed since then, and in spite of what may be said by individual Members on the other side, there is no questioning the fact that the Government anticipate a continuance of 2,500,000 people unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ponsible part in creating, says they are to be doomed to starve because we can neither give them work nor the means of maintaining themselves. The position in Scotland is not much better than in Wales. It is infinitely worse than in England. I would remind some hon. Members on both sides of the House that a very strong feeling is growing up in Scotland in favour of separation from this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have a means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " I look upon unemployment as the most important matter of our generation, and it is essential, if we are anxious to make the world better than it is, that we should give fair-play to our own people. There should be a great deal more co-operation than there is. When we talk about co-operation we suggest taking the trade unions into consideration. They know something about this unemployment problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " the question of the means test, which has been referred to by quite a. large number of hon. Members. Members of the Labour party are never in sympathy with or in support of the means test. We are only a couple of years in front of you. You are not in sympathy with the means test, and we were not in sympathy, when it was recommended. We were not in sympathy two years ago, any more than we are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "are mostly parasitical. What is London London sucks from the nation wealth that is created in every other part, and it has only 10 per cent. of unemployment, whereas there is 30 per cent. in Liverpool and 30 per cent. in Glasgow. Is any hon. Member prepared to say that art individual member of the community in London is superior to any individual member of the community in Liverpool or in Glasgow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ondon sucks from the nation wealth that is created in every other part, and it has only 10 per cent. of unemployment, whereas there is 30 per cent. in Liverpool and 30 per cent. in Glasgow. Is any hon. Member prepared to say that art individual member of the community in London is superior to any individual member of the community in Liverpool or in Glasgow? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I should say not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "evying of the duties chargeable for that purpose with greater advantage and convenience, it is expedient to make such order as is hereinafter contained. The basis purpose of the Order is to increase the amount payable by Irish Free State traders, or the importers of this country, so that the total amounts will approximate nearer to the amount due under the land annuities than has yet been reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-04", "file": "debates1933-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "4575f27074c52c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They inspect !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "preceding_text": "We ought to know what these inspectors do. Surely the House is entitled to have that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-04a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why the right hon. Gentleman makes such a reply, because the councils have gone into the matter, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1499.6", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who says this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "he temptation to run away. They are up early-early to bed and early to rise. The ordinary men rise at 6, and the others at 6.30. After breakfast at 8 o'clock they start the day's work. The work is of the hardest description, and all for 3s. a week. The camps are full of men who have been kidded on to volunteer. The new Bill gives the Unemployment Assistance Committee power to make them compulsory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1499.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1499.6", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "this country in working-class homes could be condensed into one human cry, it would rattle and appal the people in high places. I for my part go out to the country every week-end and at every moment that I get the opportunity and tell the people there is no hope from this House, and that sitting in this House is a gang of hard-faced business men and women, with the outlook of the capitalist class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1499.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ems to us that this arrangement offends against every canon of sound finance. Our opposition to this arrangement with the local authorities is not something like the attitude of the Socialist party towards the means test, not something that is simply invented for purposes of by-elections, but something which has been for years the policy of the Liberal party. I have here a copy of the Yellow Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I am glad of that, but your circular does not say so. What kind of uniform are you going to put them in? Convict's uniform? Is the clothing to be provided to have the arrow upon it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "board. I do not know what title will be given to them. That is something entirely new in the administration of affairs connected with the social needs of the people. I think that nothing similar has ever been set up. I would point out to the House that it is exactly the sort of body, not with the full powers which they wanted, as the Charity Organisation Society has been for the last half century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "adopted by the London County Council is that nobody with local knowledge except Tories may serve on the local committees. They are packed in London, and he knows also that the people who administer public assistance in the East of London are ladies and gentlemen from the West End, who probably know all about a good dinner at the Eitz but nothing about the dinners of the poor people in East London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "er seems to think that we imagine there is a big hole somewhere and all that he has to do is to dip his hand down and haul it up. I want to tell the right hon. Gentleman where the money can come from. All of us in one way or another pay taxes, and since this Government has been in office £30,000,000 or £40,000,000 of indirect taxes have been imposed, most of which the working people pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ody pay this? Why should you put it on to the employers and the employed? Why should you say that they alone shall bear this burden? We maintain that it should be borne by the whole community and that instead of one-third coming out of the Exchequer the whole of it should come from the National Exchequer. If that were done every one would pay according to the manner in which the taxes were levied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where is the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "distinction which we ought to draw is not one between different types of men but one between different types of unemployment. I believe that distinction can be made, and I am going to try to make it, and I think, when it is made it will be found that certain types of unemployment emerge which are suitable subjects for insurance. What is it that the working man desires to-day above everything else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No wonder it is a bad Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "he report of the National Liberal Federation on Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment. It contains the results of the Liberal party's inquiry under Mr. Milner Gray, my predecessor, who issued a large questionnaire to a great many eminent people. It contains a number of conclusions and recommendations, and 90 per cent, of the recommendations of the Liberal Committee arc; to be found in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-06", "file": "debates1933-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4818425d7e455c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The local advisory committees!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "that the attitude of the Liberal party is due to a realisation that the historic fate which always overtakes the remnants of the Liberal party has again overtaken them, and that is that some other party and some other Government give practical legislative effect to what in their hands were merely pious aspirations. I think the only thing left for me to deal with is the question of the board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-06a.1607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-07", "file": "debates1933-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "de80e3a48f32cf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "Dominions to come and ask for similar consideration? The Labour party believes it is all wrong, and that we should not bolster up private enterprise in this way after it has failed. We believe that the encouragement of this kind of action in Newfoundland is a policy that will smash the Empire. I know the Government have no particular policy. The Labour party has a policy with regard to the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-07", "file": "debates1933-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "de80e3a48f32cf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1924.1", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to interrupt my hon. Friend repeatedly, but it merely empowers the board to pay and makes no provision as to where the board is to get its money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-07", "file": "debates1933-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "de80e3a48f32cf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM ALLEN", "preceding_text": "th- ern Ireland in the Bill by name, while Scotland and Wales are apparently left out, it seems to me very clear from the first page of the Bill that both Scotland and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland, are included. It is refreshing for a Member from Northern Ireland to see that some notice is taken of the fact that Northern Ireland is part of the British Empire. We are so often taken as aliens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-07", "file": "debates1933-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "de80e3a48f32cf3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1952.1", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) quoted many examples which must not be overlooked and which must be present to the minds of all of us. We are handing out money, dole after dole, to this great agricultural industry, and there is ample evidence, which I challenge any landowner in this House to deny, that already farms have been let at higher rents than were obtainable 12 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-07a.1952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1983.3", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for West Bermondsey (Dr. Salter) will kindly allow me to proceed, I have no doubt that I shall be able to make that point perfectly clear. I have been very careful so far not to say anything which would tend to hurt the feelings of those who are obviously very much opposed to us. If the hon. Member will give me an opportunity I shall be able to make everything perfectly plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "I am going to deal with that point and with the point of the alleged demand on the part of sections of the public for increased hours. I am going to deal with them in extenso in a few moments if the hon. Lady will be patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "Acting under the orders of their masters and owners of the houses, who, if they disobeyed, would turn them out of their houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": ", the later the hour, the worse for the children. It is clear that if we are to keep public-houses open for an extra hour in London and elsewhere that, in large numbers of instances, either the children are going to be kept out of bed altogether or else, if they go to bed earlier, they are going to be disturbed or awakened when one or both parents come home, very often in a very fuddled condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "I know what I am talking about far better than many hon. Gentlemen opposite. I live in an industrial district; I reside in a working-class street. I have been a poor man's doctor for 30 years, going in end out of homes in one of the poorest districts of the metropolis, and I know what I am talking about perfectly well, and hon. Gentlemen opposite in their hearts know that what I am saying is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1997.2", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "se, and in the House itself. Not a scrap of evidence was produced on the other side. I offered to go before a Select Committee of the House and give the names of hon. Members who were guilty of repeated drunkenness inside this House, and the majority of the House, for very good reasons—reasons which were perfectly obvious to the public outside—declined my offer to go before a Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not in Oxford Street.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "icence is. I will deal with Oxford Street, as that case was selected by the hon. Member. We are always told that this supper licence business is not on a par with the ordinary supply of intoxicating liquors for consumption on the premises, because it is said that the supper licence is to enable a hungry person who wants a meal late at night to have a drink with his food. Take the Café Monico.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Woolworths!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "2;a disreputable class of the population who like to be hanging about the West End and elsewhere, and getting surreptitious drinks at all hours of the day and night. That class, I agree, is in favour of the Bill. I dare say that there are some of the old timers, the habitual soakers, who would sit in a public house until midnight or later if they had the chance, who are also in favour of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2001.2", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " the principles to which he is committed. I say that quite definitely, and I appeal to Labour Members to give the most determined opposition to this Bill. I suggest that the real motive behind the Bill is the same motive as was behind the Hotels and Restaurants Bill, introduced last Session, and that is merely to enable certain big capitalist interests to make greater dividends and bigger profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2002.3", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Poplar\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": " return to the bad old days when public-houses used to keep open so late. I am very much afraid that the problem has been looked at by the hon. Gentleman who moved the Second Reading of the Bill, chiefly from the point of view of London. But the Bill applies to the Provinces. There is no one quite as provincial as the ordinary Londoner. Londoners can only see Westminster or Hackney or Bermondsey -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2002.3", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The House of Commons\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": "eir work properly and are actuated by a sincere desire to render public service. In the great majority of cases they have no axe to grind and, generally speaking, whatever they do reflects the feelings of the community among whom they work. I should be very sorry to see this power taken out of the hands of licensing justices. They make mistakes, but so do other people, even Government departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "my friends on the Labour benches that clubs have been a centre of activity for Labour propaganda and politics; without them we should have had very little opportunity for the concentration and the organisation of the effort which the Labour party have put forward. They are very, very valuable, and I am not desirous of diminishing their strength or their numbers, but would rather see them extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "Debate, but some of the statements that I have heard have been of such an extraordinary nature that it is really impossible any longer to sit silent. The last speaker first of all told us that this Bill was promoted to further the interests of the brewing in-industry, and in the next breath he told us that the one man who prevented the setting up of a public house on a housing estate was a brewer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I do not withdraw anything I have said as to the provisions of the Shops Acts, because that was the point made. Let me quote the words of a potman who gave evidence before the Select Committee. He ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-08", "file": "debates1933-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c0328e038bb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2060.3", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (STANDARDISATION OF HOURS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "\"Who were you with last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "t. Obviously, if they have any rood in them, they should be brought forward by the Government. I wish to put a point of view that so far has not been heard in the House. I speak in the interest of our sons. Anyone who has watched the expression of delight and satisfaction that comes over the face of a young man who has been dancing with a girl when she says, \"I think I will have a lemonade\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-08a.2060.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I made no suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.14.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "May I submit that the effect of the Resolution is not so much to impose a new tax upon local authorities as to relieve local authorities of an existing burden?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "is that it is not always understood by the Front Bench. I rise because nobody else has referred to the point in question. I am sorry if I am, like Cassandra, prophesying woe unto our Parliamentary institutions, but, unless I have entirely misread the relevant Sub-section, another vigorous attempt is being made on the part of the bureaucracy to undermine the financial power of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e: We have here the two sides, unemployment to be stabilised upon a starvation level while the Minister of Agriculture is making certain that the consumers, who after all are the unemployed, shall pay increased prices in order to solve the economic problem. I hope the Prime Minister will try to remember some of his Aberavon days, and will realise that he is being made a cats-paw by the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "igants. It is an excellent principle of the British Constitution that the judiciary should be outside the control of the political executive. We have no complaint to make of that principle, and I believe it is that principle which has kept the British courts free, to the extent to which they are free, of political prejudice and pressure. This board is to be placed in the same position of immunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Trades Union Congress!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " the last four or five years is the history of declining liberties for the ordinary working man. Here, for the first time in the history of this country, a poor man who is in distress will have no elected person to whom he can appeal, here, for the first time, no tribunal to hear his case, here, for the first time, no means at all of making his grievance articulate, no way of getting beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-11", "file": "debates1933-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "564c76ab22c8cac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the General Strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The kind of organisation that is going to be created under this Bill means that you are turning your backs on Parliamentary institutions and you are furthering the progressive curtailment of British liberties. We do not mind. Let us know that we have to fight the issue out somewhere else than on the Floor of the House of Commons, let the people know that, and, knowing that, do not deny them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-11a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BECHUANALAND AND SWAZILAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman has hurled this insult at me. Surely if he speaks on behalf of the Government, others have the right to speak in order to protect the interests of this chief and his people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on the Order Paper to-day !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "If this habit of suspending the Eleven o'Clock Rule is to become a daily custom, would it not be better to alter the Standing Order and make the closing hour of the House a later time than eleven o'clock? May I ask if the revised form of the Money Resolution of the Unemployment Bill is now available to hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The oldest Colony.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "oundland finds itself is not the end of this sort of thing. My political theorisings lead me on general principles to a belief in the disintegration of the British Empire. I see evidences of it here and there in other places and in other things that are happening in various parts of the world, and to me it is something more than a coincidence that this oldest Dominion should be first in the queue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " the bondholders—the bankers, the moneylenders, the bondholders about whom his Leader spoke earlier in the afternoon. I do not flatter myself that anything I can say is going to disabuse him of that idea. If an angel from heaven came to speak from this Box and said that this Government was not primarily concerned in helping the bondholders, hon. Members opposite would stick to their opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ess if it is to the advantage of both Board A and Board B. My hon. Friend the Member for South Bradford examined it rather from the point of taking, but there is also the point of giving, and Board A is not likely to give away money to Board B. Rather is it likely to withhold any assistance from Board B unless it is assured that Board B is really on the point of very serious financial catastrophe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-12", "file": "debates1933-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6d6ecce95d46ad5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I do not think anybody would challenge the good faith of the Minister but what we are discussing is whether this a wise provision or not. As far as I can see the Minister acknowledges that losses made in the initial stages can be treated as expenses and under the Financial Resolution, these losses can be written off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-12a.333.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-13", "file": "debates1933-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "948d346c86bcf9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He might be killed.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "That is not a reason for blinding a man and refusing to pay compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-13", "file": "debates1933-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "948d346c86bcf9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "SHIPPING INDUSTRY AND SHIPBUILDING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Duties.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e that appears to me to be practicable—it would require careful consideration in matters of detail—is whether it is possible to devise a system of imposing countervailing penalties on unfairly subsidised ships when they bring cargoes into the ports of the various countries who are willing to co-operate in suppressing the system of subsidies, in order to make the subsidies unprofitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-13", "file": "debates1933-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "948d346c86bcf9b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMS", "preceding_text": "n overwhelming force by which they could implement their will against the interests of all. On the other hand, if you were to place it in one of the less powerful States, you would immediately have a guarantee against that contingency. My hon. Friend below me says \"Switzerland.\" I can imagine many less fruitful suggestions than that. I am thinking primarily of this as a regional European question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-13a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.541.6", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "This question was originally addressed to the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.541.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.541.6", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "This question was originally addressed to the Attorney-General. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"] May I ask the Parliamentary Secretary if he is aware that there are operating in this country 3,000 fraudulent bankrupts, who are mainly alien Jews, and is he going to take any action to protect the British trader against these economic vultures who are picking the flesh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.541.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Gentleman considered that if we put a period of years in this Bill, the first thing that would happen would be that the same politicians would so exploit the situation, so destroy confidence and hope, that they would be able to say to the people, \"Do not do what these people want because in two or three or four years the whole thing will be altered again and you will be all right.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not this Governor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e answer that if they were prosecuted others, some of whom might be in future in the Government under the Commissioners, would be involved also? A fact that stands out clearly is that the Governor presided at meetings while the corruption and graft were going on. Possibly he is going to preside over them in the future. The Governor is going to preside over where the graft and the corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ion. Would he have shown so much kindness, toleration and consideration to people guilty of corruption in his union? When he came across cases of corruption and graft in his union he acted, and I do not say that he acted wrongly. Sometimes he acted against a great deal of criticism. But he did not suspend the members of a branch from voting. He sent those who were guilty to the courts to be tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Incredible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "at date Richard II was deposed and murdered. You cannot rely upon the Newfoundland people remaining of the same mind indefinitely, and I think it is obvious, from what we know of English people everywhere, that as times goes on the people get dissatisfied with even the best of Governments. I am told that there is a feeling of dissatisfaction even with the National Government—after two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "bt to the bondholders may be regularly and steadily met. That is the purpose of the Bill, and anything else that is being done or proposed to be done by the report is incidental. The big purpose is to secure the interest on the debt. There is a curious reticence to say who these bondholders are; an extraordinary reticence to say where the money is held. We know that some of it is held in New York.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": ".Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " a Newfoundland fisherman—in examining these things I always try to put myself in the place of the toad beneath the harrow—and was faced with this Bill, with its deprivation of political liberty and economic and industrial slavery, I would walk down to the pier at St. John's, get on board the first boat and keep going on until I had put thousands of miles between myself and the Island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "willingly and completely, and will congratulate you upon the departure that you have made.\" The particular charge is that, having assumed this responsibility, we should have gone round to the various Dominions and have asked them to permit us to do so. I suggest that the House is not taking this question seriously and that the objection savours very much of, shall I say, Parliamentary obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ual opportunity of examining the taxation burdens which they are being asked to bear and some constitutional means by which their views on proposed taxation can be referred to the people in authority here. Those proposals represent the bare minimum upon which a House of Commons with any sense of decency ought to insist. I had hoped that by this time the right hon. Gentleman would have risen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "that prolongs discussion. I say frankly that if it had not been for the Secretary of State we should have got on more quickly. If one of the Under-Secretaries had been here not a tenth of the time would have been wasted, because they have too much ability. They have cheek, bub they have ability. I do not want to delay the proceedings, but to narrow the issue down to one simple point. It is simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has got to eat sometimes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "I notice with some alarm that the Government have had to call up reserves, and that the Front Bench is occupied by a very representative party of the various sections composing the Government. I am sure they are very competent, but I should feel happier if the Secretary of State for the Dominions were still here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend one question on a point which I do not quite follow? Is it proposed to put into the Letters Patent the actual words of the recommendations on page 6 of the Bill; and, if so, would he explain how it is proposed to put in paragraph ( g ) on page 7?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I desire to support the Motion to report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "perhaps, a stimulant to the Dominions Secretary, but stimulants are not the kind of thing on which the House ought to discuss matters of such very grave importance as are before us now. You may stimulate a person in many ways, but you cannot expect a person acting under a stimulant to be able to give that attention to this extremely important matter which a Minister of the Crown ought to pay to it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": " raise was in regard to the time and the circumstances in which we are likely to discuss the Financial Resolution that will follow the Bill which we are now discussing. I would ask the Patronage Secretary whether the Resolution that is to be submitted will be entirely different from that which we discussed the other day. There appeared to be some hon. Members who were ready to thank the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain MARGESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was moving the Chairman out of the Chair! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MARGESSON", "preceding_text": " Resolution: I shall merely say that everyone who is interested in the local authorities will be glad of the concession, even though it is only a small one. We will certainly willingly lend our assistance in the procedure which the right hon. Gentleman has outlined as being the desirable procedure for putting this matter in order.\"—[\"OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th December, 1933; col. 104, Vol. 284.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I came to this House filled with the knowledge of its great traditions, and it is because of those traditions that I feel bound to support the Motion to report Progress. The flippancy of some of the remarks that have been made is ill-becoming to the Committee, and indicates that the Committee has reached a stage at which it is not in a condition to discuss important matters any longer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Committee is not in a condition to bury decently or to carry on the business of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there no Welsh bondholders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway explain to us why they object so much to paying English bondholders in particular?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ack to us we shall have it at an enhanced value that nothing in Newfoundland justifies but is only given to the stock by the actions of this House at this moment. You are adding to Great Britain's indebtedness something in the region of £5,000,000 because of the fact that at a quarter-past 2 in the morning to-day the average member of the House of Commons is not sufficiently wide awake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No—early hour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Committee will pardon me for intruding in this discussion at this late hour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e him that there is to be a Comptroller and Auditor-General in Newfoundland, and, in addition, the whole of the accounts will be reviewed in the Dominions Office, and again in this House. The hon. and learned Gentleman asked me whether there would be a means inquiry into the resources of the individual bondholders. He knows that even if such an innovation were desirable, it would be impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "d ask leave to sit again. I make this Motion in order to ask the Government what their intentions are in regard to the proceedings this morning. It is now 20 to 5, and we have made very fair progress. I hope by now the Government realise that such important measures as the Newfoundland Bill and the Unemployment Resolution ought not to be put down on the same night. It is asking the House too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] Well, we are quite fresh and ready to go on, whereas there are signs of obvious sleepiness on the Government benches. We have seen one Minister retire for refreshment, and we do not want to overstrain another Minister. I suggest to the Financial Secretary that if he gets this Newfoundland Bill in the course of time, we might easily take the other business on Monday or Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.761.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They are not all-nighters.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "d of false courage. If it comes to hard work, we are the men to do it. If I may, I would like to appeal for the ladies, too. I know the ladies say that they do not want it, but they look like washed-out rags. There is nothing gives me more bad feeling in an all-night sitting than seeing women here. They cannot stand the arduous task of an all-night sitting. Whatever qualities women may have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.789.8", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "visions of Section 2 (4) of the Loan Act, it covers, though in a different form and for a temporary purpose instead of a permanent purpose, part of the subject matter of Clause 3. Of that I entertain no doubt. Now I look at what the scheme of Section 2 of the Loan Act is in order to understand what the Newfoundland Government may borrow. I do not propose to take the Sub-sections in their entirety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.789.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Captain MARGESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MARGESSON", "preceding_text": "Committee. When the programme of business for Monday was announced and the Government intimated that they were giving one day to the Financial Resolution in Committee, no complaint was made either from the hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway or the hon. Gentlemen opposite me, through the usual channels. One day for the discussion of the Resolution in Committee was apparently regarded as satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have kept us all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "inary facilities which would be granted for the discussion of any other subject. The Parliamentary Secretary has done his best to throw the responsibility on the Opposition. We cannot take it. It is childish for the leaders of a Government supported by 500 members to complain about the Opposition of a handful being so strong that they have to use brutal methods. It is puerile to argue in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.832.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.860.4", "colnum": "860", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " is £512,000. If this represents Scotland's share of relief, and England and Wales only need the balance, there is cither an error in the figures or Scotland's burden is relatively greater than that of England and Wales. The new educational burden is stated at £750,000. of which probably £75,000 is applicable to Scotland. Perhaps it is worth while quoting Section 78 of the 1929 Act:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I wished to show every courtesy to the hon. Gentleman by giving way to him, but I thought he would produce an interruption more worthy than that. I do know something about the distressed areas and local government there. I know that the people are not wealthy, and one reason is the gross extravagance of the local authorities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-14", "file": "debates1933-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "418734448da7e00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not inquire in Oldham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "yment is substantially less proportionally than in Oldham and yet I find that Salford is paying Poor Law relief to a substantially higher proportion of people than is the case in Oldham. Might it not be worth while for the hon. Member for Salford to go to his borough Council and submit to them that they should examine their own circumstances, and inquire why a town so near to them as Oldham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-14a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ol of their affairs. They have no power whatever to remove those people from office. It is true that the existing Government of Newfoundland have agreed to this being done. The proposal has never been submitted, and will not be submitted in any shape or form, to the people of Newfoundland. If that is not dictatorship, I do not know the meaning of the word. Even Hitler has consulted his population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "the importance of making a gesture of the friendly character which has been suggested, to the people of Newfoundland. Such a gesture will indicate the anxiety of the people of this country to help our Dominions when they are in difficulties. At the same time, I hope that the measure of relief contemplated in the Bill will not be taken as a precedent in dealing with difficulties in other Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "four-fifths of her debt, she can borrow more cheaply than we can. The people of Newfoundland will not be injured economically nor will they be improved economically by this change—unless the administration is a better administration. This is a question of what are we going to get for the money. As I work it out we are paying about £12,000,000 of the British taxpayers' money as security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1037.9", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By a tariff!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ioned that some observations might be directed to the question of the surplus productivity of the great Continental dyestuffs works, at Ludwigshafen and other places, not a word has been said about that. I do not know how hon. Members below the Gangway who support the Free Trade argument would propose to deal with the possible dumping of that great surplus productive capacity on this market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1037.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1037.9", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "uffs works, at Ludwigshafen and other places, not a word has been said about that. I do not know how hon. Members below the Gangway who support the Free Trade argument would propose to deal with the possible dumping of that great surplus productive capacity on this market—[HON. MEMBERS: \"By a tariff!\"] The Import Duties Advisory Committee have expressly found that a tariff is not applicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1037.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-18", "file": "debates1933-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "50cd5bf5f6f2c090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer for having lifted this burden off the shoulders of his constituents. In addition to that, as one of those who know the operation of the body that discharges the functions of local government in Durham, he might with advantage and wisdom impress upon his colleagues on the Durham County Council the desirability of being a little more careful as to how they spend the ratepayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-18a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am not referring to those credits, but my question referred to this, that the shipbuilders in Northern Ireland are getting a grant of money that goes from here because Northern Ireland is a necessitous area, and they are using that money to undercut the shipbuilders in this country, who are thus at a disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIM).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " to this time-table we have done our best to get into touch with all the sections of the House. The proposal that we now: make is far more in the nature of co-operative suggestion than a Government decision. I am pleased at the success that has attended the attempts to get these time-tables very largely agreed upon before they are put upon the Order Paper. The Government simply stands stiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIM).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why worry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "cretary to the Treasury, we do not expect him to be ashamed. He will stand up for anything which he proposes in this House. That is his job, but the Minister ought to take back this Motion. He ought not to force it through the House to-night. There seems to be a consensus of opinion that even with free discussion the Bill would not take up any more time than is being allotted under the time-table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I support the Guillotine Motion because, as has been said by the Opposition, it relates to a most important Bill. The Opposition have already said that they will, by every means in their power, try to stop it getting through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None in this Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "urnment Motions to be moved and to be accepted by the Chair; it came on at 8.15 and was discussed. As the hon. Member for Gorbals said, such Motions are now infrequent, and I do not believe that if the Government were to give way by accepting this Amendment it would really make any practical difference. There have been no such Motions this Session. In fact I cannot remember any in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "Interruption owing to failure of lighting.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "is Scheme and, say, the Bacon Scheme. The Bacon Scheme was one of large agricultural development devoted to building up a large bacon industry in this country. This Scheme, however, is one which you may call stagnation, and is based on what is called the basic acreage of a given year, and any attempt to increase the acreage is to be very severely penalised. This scheme is what may be called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEWART", "preceding_text": "otatoes on it save by the payment of a penalty. Another holding, which may be put into the market in the same year, having by sheer luck a basic acreage, rises in rent 2s. or 5s. It is not fair that Parliament should put an undue value on one man's property as compared with another. I beg the farming industry to realise that danger which is inherent in the scheme. I suppose the House must pass it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1267.5", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I am informed that it is not proposed that the board shall fix the price, or that any fixing of the price is in this scheme at all. It deals far more with the question of grade and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-19", "file": "debates1933-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "76238b8ac8cee27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!.''", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "Is there any limit?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-19a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "te enterprise has no solution or redress for the problem. It is not right that one part of the country should be in a prosperous condition while many of the outlying parts are neglected and starving. The present system stands condemned; I do not think anybody can defend it. At the same time it is not sufficient for us to indict the present system without attempting to put some- thing in its place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Laughter. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "or each family which would not be taxed, but alter that there would be a graduated scale of taxation and the person from whom we had bought the land or the industry, and who might have done very well by the deal, would have in his possession large accumulations of stocks. That man would have to pay in accordance with his holdings and we should get back from him the money the State had paid to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1375.7", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "erald\"—will be turned on to explaining the merits and actions of the Government and the advantages of Socialism. Some Conservative Ministers might be rather amused to see under a Socialist Government certain Conservative papers—and I could name papers if I chose—forced to give support to a Socialist Government which they have so often denied to Conservative Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Japanese competition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " it means sticking to all you have and to that which belongs to other people, he may have been right. In 1930 a commission was sent out from the Lancashire cotton trade to study the conditions in the East. They put forward constructive proposals, but neither the Government Committee's recommendations nor the conclusions of this Commission appear to be reflected by any changes in the industry. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "er for the past 100 years, means that we cannot recover the great percentage of the trade, which is irrecoverably gone. We ought to frame our plans and make up our minds accordingly. These facts ought to fortify us, and convince even the sceptical ones, as to the absolute necessity of some of those redundancy schemes for scrapping mills and plant which there is no hope of our ever again employing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By their orders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "mployers' side of the industry to reorganise effectively. It is not suggested that this scheme is sacrosanct. I was rather surprised that the hon. Member for Bolton should think it necessary to emphasise that this scheme is the outcome of the work of the Research Department at Transport House, but should not think it necessary to say that it has been adopted unanimously by the cotton trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor do all the Labour party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I was using the words of the hon. and learned Member for Withington, and the hon. and learned Member for Moss Side. All Tories do not by the way speak with the same voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1933-12-20", "file": "debates1933-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ca1a401154f17afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to issue Letters Patent providing for the administration of Newfoundland, and provision as to revocation and amendment thereof.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speak up !", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-20a.1447.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-21", "file": "debates1933-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "14ec723b687dc37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-21a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": " for a junta of Powers which, I suggest, would mean nothing more than the dictatorship of the great States. Who would join such a dictatorship? France would not, owing to her commitments with the Little Entente, and Great Britain could not, owing to her Dominions. The United States obviously would not commit herself to that extent. The dictatorship would consist merely of Japan, Germany and Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-21a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1933-12-21", "file": "debates1933-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "14ec723b687dc37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-21a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "LIVESTOCK SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "weeks, have been pressing the Minister to do something for the live-stock trade. I want to thank the Minister for what be has done, because I am sure that it will bring relief to many farmers. We must not for a moment assume that this is the whole of the Government's policy, and I warn hon. Members opposite that the Government's policy will be on broad lines similar to what it has followed before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1933-12-21a.1561.1"}