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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Foreign Secretary if he considers that it is possible under capitalism——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.7.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend whether he has submitted already to Messrs. Bowater the reply which he has read out to the House, and given them any opportunity of making their observations upon it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "l. The whole trend of thought in this country has been in the direction of favouring the raising of the school age. Indeed, the words in this Bill which make it possible for the child to pay the twopence and become insurable have been taken out of the Bill which was intended to raise the school age to 15. Now an hon. Member wants to persuade the Committee to agree to the lowering of the age to 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.74.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The effect of this Amendment, as I see it, would be that a young person would be entitled to walk out of school straight into unemployment benefit. I think that represents substantially what the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " insurance benefit that is payable under the existing legislation to a youth of that age. It is our incapacity that is really under review, if we are incapable of finding a useful niche for this young man or woman, whom we have educated to the best of our ability up to 16 years of age. If the child manages to get some job, however stupid or futile, that displaces an older experienced worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is Part II.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "areas where there are children who will be idle, they are to be encouraged by a provision of this kind to remain in the educational system? It seems to me that the Minister has not answered that point, and he certainly has not dealt with the other question—if a child on reaching the age of 16 cannot obtain employment and has no means of income, to whom will that child then become chargeable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNETH LINDSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNETH LINDSAY", "preceding_text": "rs. If this were in any sense a compensation for keeping a child at school between the ages of 14 and 16, my attitude towards it would immediately change, but in fact it is a purely arbitrary arrangement, as most of these insurance arrangements are. From beginning to end they are not really insurance at all. You cannot insure against unemployment in the real sense of the word. Everyone knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.86.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Part II.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "e the girls to live? Are they to live by thieving, by immorality? These are questions, harsh and brutal questions but live questions, on which the Government must accept some responsibility. No employer will employ them, and no public works are to be proceeded with. What are these people to do? They cannot sleep for half the year; and at the back of all this there is the inalienable right to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-29", "file": "debates1934-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5b2053490801fae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Committee is grateful to the hon. Member for his explanation and that most hon. Members will draw from it two conclusions. First, that he has thrown over his leader and second that, by implication, we are threatened by hon. Members with lawlessness if this Amendment is not carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-29a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "of the Ministry of Labour that the claimant has neglected to avail himself of an opportunity of suitable employment. If hon. Members will look at those words, they will see that it is the actual administration, and what has happened before, that we must keep in our minds, and not these words. What will happen at the Employment Exchange? The officer must shift the onus of proof on to the applicant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ed man. Seven jobs were advertised by an urban council in my constituency and over 600 men applied for them. Three men are required at a colliery, and there are 6,000 men at the exchange, but not one of the 6,000 knows that he may be one of the three to get a job. Therefore, the officer will be entitled, under these words, to insist that all the 6,000 men should try to get one of these three jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the need for it\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "he Minister that under his Amendment, whether we think the words are absolutely correct and adequate or not, he has shifted the responsibility and the onus from the insured person on to the officer of the Ministry, and in so doing he has made a very great gain and security. After all, what can be the exception to the words? All that you have added is that the onus of proof is put upon the officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Clause.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "tage than during the Committee stage. It is necessary, in order to facilitate the work of the House. If the Minister wants to assist himself and the Committee he can do so by getting up and telling the Committee what evidence has been brought to him which leads him to believe that the Clause in the 1930 Act, part, of which was read by the hon. Member for Whitechapel (Mr. Janner), needs alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "mple Amendment, that he would have put simple language in its place. It is ambiguous, and my opinion is that he wishes it to be ambiguous. He does not want a clear definition. The Amendment is as plain as a pike-staff. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary if he has any time to listen to the discussion—I hope that I am not interrupting him—to realise that I am in earnest about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " about this matter. [ Interruption .] I am wondering whether the National party really want this matter to be made definite or not. In the Amendment of the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) you have a definition, but the Minister of Labour, like all the rest of the Ministers, is not prepared to accept anything reasonable from the Opposition except under pressure from Members of his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "n the few days to which he refers. But when I come to the Amendment I am in a difficulty. I have said more than once that I wanted to consider all these Amendments on their merits and to give full regard to the recommendations. When I desire to accept an Amendment or endeavour to make what would be regarded as less hard some provision in the Bill, I am told that I am trying to trick the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why put them down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not making any attempt to meet us. It is a great concession to accept words which the Government tell us do not mean anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "as far as these children are concerned, in the intervention of the hon. and learned Member for Central Nottingham (Mr. O'Connor). The Parliamentary Secretary admitted that there was some substance in our point and offered no objection at all to what we were striving to put forward. He went so far as to say that if we defined the form of words the Government would have no objection to accepting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that the Government accept the umpire's decision as being the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "n the Report stage, insert words in the Bill to give effect to that intention? Is that unreasonable? It has been asked for over and over again. It is perfectly reasonable for the Opposition to say that the Minister must answer a plain question in which, as he admits, there is a point of substance; but he will not answer it, and I want to suggest to hon. Members that by this sort of nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.315.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-30", "file": "debates1934-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "f11c816b3fe36c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Legal English!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "re has the faintest idea. Obviously the Minister is right not to give any pledge as to his treatment of any Amendment that may be drafted, until he knows precisely what it means. I am surprised at an Opposition which can move an Amendment, be disgusted when it is accepted, and then express profound dissatisfaction because nobody has understood what they are incapable of putting into plain English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-30a.317.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "preceding_text": "If I may proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHY", "preceding_text": "t a decent standard of life in the next 20 or 30 years; and I do not think that we can afford, unless compelled to do so, to ignore what is potentially, and, I think, likely to remain for many years to come, the greatest market in the world for capital goods, and the only market left for us to exploit in this direction. I use the term \"exploit\" in no disparaging sense, but in the legitimate sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is made. Does anyone suppose that the Soviet Government, when they have got a temporary agreement, unless it includes a clause saying that it will only run for, say three or six months, will ever negotiate for a final agreement, by which they have so much to lose? It is trifling with the House of Commons and with these unfortunate creditors, many of whom are, to my own knowledge, very poor people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ". KIRKWOOD : The hon. Member for South Kensington (Sir W. Davison) said that in Russia British citizens had been murdered under the present regime, and he went on to make references leading to the inference that it was those engineers of Messrs. Vickers, meaning the trial of Messrs. Thornton and Macdonald. I would advise the hon. Member that the less said in this House about that trial the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"His Grace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y that he would sacrifice them. He knows that they have been compelled to sacrifice so much, and time and time again he has stated their case well because he knows that they are being sacrificed so much. I was speaking about the Noble Lady. She makes a great plea about the slave conditions in the timber industry, and that Russia would not meet its liabilities. Her husband—his Lordship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-01-31", "file": "debates1934-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3091d2d1dd297f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f you. It is not so long ago that he went out to Brazil and the Argentine. What for? Because in the Argentine they were not meeting their liabilities. Was any question raised in this House of breaking off negotiations? No fear. What did they do? In order to keep in with the Argentine they sent out the Prince of Wales to make friends with the Argentine. Would you send the Prince of Wales to Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-01-31a.422.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One councillor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the protest with regard to this bill was made in the first place by councillors in Grimsby?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "r!\"] Also, is he aware that the Press gave publicity to that protest? Seeing that the right hon. Gentleman states in his answer that I have been misinformed on this matter, is he aware—and I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, to have to say this—that the information now given is different from the information which was given to me on Tuesday of this week when I was pressed not to put the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The regulations are to be drawn up by the Minister, and \"Minister\" means all the numerous competent people who work under him, who are not up against these things in the sense in which the hon. Member and I, but who are actually daily administering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ons are to be drawn up by the Minister, and \"Minister\" means all the numerous competent people who work under him, who are not up against these things in the sense in which the hon. Member and I, but who are actually daily administering them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Obviously they are. Does any hon. Member suggest that the people who know most about this matter are not the officers of the Exchanges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " always possible to argue on hard cases. We know how often hon. Members opposite have pleaded the case of the poor widow with brewery shares—hard cases; but in all these struggles there is invariably a much larger question behind, and there is a much larger question behind this Amendment. There has been traditional hostility to the trade union movement in this country from all our opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. REID", "preceding_text": " way as the right of non-unionists be limited to questions of principle, then my objection disappears entirely, and so, I think, will the objection of other hon. Members. We object that trade unionists can appeal whether there is any principle involved or not, whereas non-unionists are limited to questions of principle, and I ask the Minister whether it is impossible before the Report stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "We have had a number of arguments from the Conservative benches, and I believe that the question has arisen largely in consequence of the fact that this matter was discussed when most of the Members now present were absent. That is why all the confusion has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why object to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Can he imagine then that the Amendment my hon. Friend was quoting against the right hon. Gentleman with such vehemence, was one which was giving something of value to all those other persons other than the 3,500,000 trade unionists? That is the assumption behind the argument. You are giving nothing of value at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-01", "file": "debates1934-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "961f5f28f583bd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": ": \"Why object to it?\"] If hon. Members had been here earlier in the Debate they would have realised that I made my position clear. My point is that in this country at the moment, in many industries which have arisen, in the South of England in particular, and in the North, employers dismiss men who join trade unions, and consequently the law does not protect a man's rights of appeal at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-01a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-02", "file": "debates1934-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "27fd6dfea995c70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And set the house on fire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ally a fuse box, whatever that may be, and I understand that sometimes they take an instrument, break the seal and insert a new fuse, with the result that they succeed in getting something for nothing. If, however, they are not so villainous as that I am told that if they want they can put in a larger fuse with the result that they get a larger amount of light than that to which they are entitled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.702.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-02", "file": "debates1934-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "27fd6dfea995c70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no, not unknown!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. O'DONOVAN", "preceding_text": "lliers, Earl of Derby,\" with many distinguished honours. Then there were Lady Frances Balfour, Thomas Burt, Charles John Guthrie, Sir William Reynell Anson, Sir Lewis Tonna Dibdin, Sir George White, Henry Tindal Atkinson, Mary Edith Tennant, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Edgar Brierley and John Alfred Spender, and I note with some pleasure that there was added later to the list of famous and unknown names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-02", "file": "debates1934-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "27fd6dfea995c70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. O'DONOVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the fee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. O'DONOVAN", "preceding_text": "I accept that valuable interruption, but physical results from mental cruelty can be produced by any competent physician after three minutes, observation and listening to the patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-02", "file": "debates1934-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "27fd6dfea995c70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.767.5", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. O'DONOVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. O'DONOVAN", "preceding_text": "here is no open fraud upon the court in suppressing and inventing evidence.' The Minority Report says: The conception of what constitutes cruelty differs materially in classes, even in families, and may also differ in the minds of judges. That word \"cruelty\" will change in content as other words have changed in the history of the English language. Judges' interpretations vary with popular feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-02a.767.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-05", "file": "debates1934-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bde855411d8929c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "eniles and leaving out parents is becoming a serious problem. I was speaking yesterday to a great educationist who said that in the mill towns in the North, the great problem was where the parents were unemployed and yet the industries were taking in juveniles. That is something which the country will not stand, and the Government will be forced to move, and I hope myself that they will move soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-05", "file": "debates1934-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bde855411d8929c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e tried, but we will try, and sooner or later we are going to see it come to pass, that we shall take all children in this country out of industry up to 16 years of age. I am certain that we shall come to that, and I know that if the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education had his way, we should do it to-day. I do not want to press him for an answer now, but I know the kind of man he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-05", "file": "debates1934-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bde855411d8929c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "we shall come to that, and I know that if the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education had his way, we should do it to-day. I do not want to press him for an answer now, but I know the kind of man he is. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask him!\"] I do not want to put him wrong with the Cabinet. He has got to lead the Cabinet, instead of being led by them, and I want him to keep the position he has got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-05", "file": "debates1934-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bde855411d8929c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ozen different subjects in this House, and have felt how much I would like to be an expert in the things in which all the other fellows are experts. I am an expert on this; I spent most of my active teaching life dealing with boys of this type, mostly perfectly intelligent and perfectly capable. The best thing that a good teacher could do for them was to keep out of their road as much as he could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-05", "file": "debates1934-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bde855411d8929c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I hope very much that the Minister will accept this Amendment. I should like to remind him that there are 500,000 juveniles in unregulated trades; also that there are 200,000 in shops, and all hon. Members know that the hours of work in shops are 74 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-05a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "try to put any country or race under an inferior jurisdiction. I am meaning, of course, that that is a situation to be met in a new Convention, and if you are going to negotiate a new treaty, I think it must be on that basis. Secondly, no practical solution can be found on the basis that all nations throughout the world immediately abandon all weapons denied to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ich provided, it might be, for equality of rights, but provided for it without any reduction of armaments in any part of the world. We are bound to resist so melancholy a conclusion with all our might. The object of this Memorandum is to show how it is possible for highly armed Powers progressively to get rid of their heaviest weapons. I must not detain the House for more than a few minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"German version?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "many's bluff, if it is a bluff, on this matter cannot be called, and that proposals of that kind cannot be made to them. No doubt the question of these weapons is a difficult one. It is more difficult to-day than it was in Old Testament times. I noticed the other day a passage—I think it comes from the 46th Psalm—in which the Psalmist was able to sum up the disarmament situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "But action could only take place as a result of an agreement to impose sanctions, and an agreement to impose sanctions could only be a paper agreement. Any safeguard, of whatever kind, must in the first instance be a paper safeguard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "ally distinguish in our minds between saying that we take exception to paper safeguards because they do not sufficiently clearly delimit what we will do, and saying that we object to paper safeguards as such. May I turn to one or two points raised by the leader of the Liberal party—the leader of the section of the Liberal party in opposition, who made a speech for which the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1103.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-06", "file": "debates1934-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "13990cda8c7da32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "em, but he asks the Foreign Office two questions, to which I can reply. He asked if we see the text of speeches on foreign affairs before they are broadcast by the Corporation. The answer is that we do not. Secondly, he asks whether the Foreign Office was consulted before a broadcast took place on the 14th October, the date that Germany left the Conference, the answer is that it was not consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-06a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-07", "file": "debates1934-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b4e45ca8a73e820e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-07a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "INADEQUATE DEFENCES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE FROM FOREIGN ATTACKS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Might is right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " this information from the League of Nations. If that was so it was in line with the policy which was subsequently pursued, because in face of the definite findings of the Lytton Commission, the Foreign Secretary of this country did his best to whitewash Japan. Although he admitted that she was technically wrong, morally she was right. I do not understand that view. Great lawyers may but I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-07a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-07", "file": "debates1934-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b4e45ca8a73e820e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-07a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "INADEQUATE DEFENCES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE FROM FOREIGN ATTACKS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ng to do. It would only begin to put us back to the position in which we were brought up. We have lived under the shield of the Navy. To have an Air Force as strong as the air force of France or Germany, whichever is the stronger, ought to be the decision which Parliament should take, and which the National Government should proclaim. There is only one other point which I venture to mention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-07a.1193.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-08", "file": "debates1934-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6ed4f4ff516cc66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH HYDROCARBON OILS PRODUCTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beet sugar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "preceding_text": "nd, if you work it on the lines of providing a minimum of the taxpayers' money to assist the scheme at the outset, then, in the event of failure, there is a minimum loss to the taxpayer. If, on the other hand, the scheme is successful and assists employment you do not grudge a certain degree of profit to those who have been prepared to develop the scheme and who have used their wisdom in so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1362.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-08", "file": "debates1934-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6ed4f4ff516cc66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH HYDROCARBON OILS PRODUCTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": " that I was never prepared for the speech which we had from the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Mallalieu), because he used a most surprising argument. He told us that if an article is produced in this country and, in consequence, a similar article is not imported, and the duty on that imported article is not received, that it is the same thing as placing a burden of that amount on the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-08", "file": "debates1934-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6ed4f4ff516cc66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the ascertainments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "estion. Do we understand that the coalowners claim that these charges increase the average price to a point where the same quantity cannot be sold? I would like the Secretary for Mines to tell us if that is so. I will sit down for him to answer. He does not answer. If consequently the reduction is not going to be passed on in the price of coal, it is a halfpenny per ton for the coalowner's pocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-08", "file": "debates1934-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6ed4f4ff516cc66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will now be ready to come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-08", "file": "debates1934-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "6ed4f4ff516cc66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " clearer than that. Then I will leave it to the judgment of the House and the judgment of any fair-minded man the question of who correctly represents what Mr. Shinwell actually said to the House. My answer is that that arose from the facts of the industry, from the facts of the ascertainments, from the fact of representations, from the fact of the strong division of opinion in the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-08a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1476.3", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": " before I have finished, to compare the recommendations in the Report with the provisions in this Bill and to convince the hon. Members so that they will support this Measure before the Debate closes. They cannot, on the one hand, say they support the recommendations of the Royal Commission and at the same time oppose the provisions of this Bill, because the Bill carries out those recommendations,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "irtue of that residence on one night be able to get intoxicating liquor sold until midnight, from the beginning of the permitted hours, which need not necessarily be 11 o'clock, but might be 10 o'clock. They would be able to get alcoholic liquors served from 10 o'clock in the morning until midnight, not only to themselves but to their spurious guests, brought in for the purpose of secret drinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1501.3", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the fourth time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "difficult to see the injuries that may arise in many ways and the repercussions that may develop throughout the country if this piece of unnecessary legislation, for which no one has asked, is passed. This House has a duty to the public and to the people who are employed in this industry. It would have been very much better if, before this Bill had been introduced to-day for the second time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1505.4", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "preceding_text": "I said that the hon. and learned Member was wrong in his general statement, first, as to the condition of the hotels of this country, and, secondly, as to the conditions of labour in the hotel industry. That is where I say he is misinforming the House and I am within the recollection of the House in saying that he made those statements, for which there is no justification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1505.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1525.5", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Who are they? Tell us their names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ve Members in the House who are paid to the tune of £2,000 by the trade to come to the House of Commons and defend them, and we know Members of the House who have repudiated it and others who have been here and defended them in season and out. When you talk about people who are prejudiced, we say that we are not half as prejudiced as those who make it their business to defend the drink trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1525.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1526.7", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not bribed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Those who have been speaking for this Bill against us have said time after time that we are prejudiced and biased and that people should not listen to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1526.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-09", "file": "debates1934-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee0f3686188f8cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1529.5", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rtises to the tune of £1,000,000 a year. The drink trade has boasted of the power it has got over the Press. It has boasted of the fact; read it for yourself. We are not kill-joys, but we are jealous of the moral and social standards of the people of this country. We have been told that we ought to be like the people on the Continent. I hope and pray that we shall never be like the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-09a.1529.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1764.4", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTH BY", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that it is not possible to discuss Clause 18 in full on Report, would the Prime Minister undertake to give special consideration to the question of the possible recommittal of this particular Clause, in order to give the House an opportunity of considering it? It involves £115,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1764.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "In view of the explanation of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "I have no reason whatever to anticipate that any child attending these centres will suffer from lack of meals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are an optimist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "iven way if I had thought the hon. Member was going to ask so obvious a question, because he knows perfectly well that the regulations have to be passed by this House before they can operate, and he knows, or should know, that undoubtedly the formation of those regulations will be very largely in the light of the discussions that have taken place in the House during the various stages of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1869.2", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "trembling on the verge of undesirable influence. Let us realise that public assistance—the Poor Law—has always been in that position. For the last hundred years it has always involved the exercise of personal patronage by elected persons. For years it has worked reasonably well, but when the present strain is put upon it, if democracy insists on retaining that power of patronage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-13", "file": "debates1934-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1584da0a2000ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member suggests that if the law lays down an allowance so high that the Member or committee asked to administer it is proud and glad to administer it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-13a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " of the Coventry Ordnance Works, whose factory was equipped for the manufacture of naval guns. He succeeded in persuading our own Admiralty that Germany was accelerating the building of her dreadnoughts. The result was that his firm induced our Government to proceed to build dreadnoughts more rapidly here. He pitted Germany against our own Admiralty and secured some substantial orders as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "raveller should ever obtain access to a Cabinet. I know a co-operative official who not only got access as a visitor, but was the First Lord of the Admiralty. He was on the other side of the table from the traveller. But what about the Coventry Ordnance Company? I believe it does not exist now, as a separate entity at any rate. Did that traveller tell the British Cabinet anything that was un-true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1953.6", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, by the Nationalists.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "re may have been a measure of mistake, but nothing alters the fact that in substance what was happening in Germany between 1906 and 1908 was something very serious to the safety of this country. It was the realisation that those things had happened that induced the Liberal Government, which during the years 1910 to 1914 was maintained in office very largely by numbers of the Socialist party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1953.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Germany.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "who think that that is promoting peace may be right but I think they are wrong. I never could understand why the Socialists should call themselves the party of peace. The most militarist-minded people in the world to-day are those who held that gigantic parade of troops and tanks and so forth in Moscow recently. There is no more militarist minded country in the world at present than Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "nt, and that what we had to do was to apply reason. I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that the most powerful influence in the world to-day is still sentiment. Reason has been used a good deal; people are able to give reasons why we should carry on the vicious system which is responsible for this Debate; but my humble opinion is that we can neither have peace nor disarmament under capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " conscript wealth. That is my case. I never was a pacifist, and I am not a pacifist yet, because I would defend the Socialist Republic if necessary at the point of the bayonet, although I always defended the pacifist, and will still to the best of my ability. But I am not under any delusion, and my comrades are not under any delusion. Think what is going on in Vienna, and not a move is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.2016.1", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "pproved by the city corporation of Cardiff in the past, they are not enabled under Section 47 of that Act to apply to the Minister to approve a scheme. For the sake of argument, let us assume Cardiff was in that position; I would like to remind my hon. Friends that automatically we would acquire powers at least as drastic as the powers we are asking Parliament to grant us to-night under Clause 76.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.2016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-14", "file": "debates1934-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3712e1f637ea703a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.2016.1", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": " works, of Guest Keen's, and of Baldwins' belching forth smoke, testifying to the fact that conditions in Cardiff are prosperous and that they and their friends will find constant employment. What would happen if this Clause were struck out of the Bill? If those works were subsequently unoccupied the Cardiff Corporation would have no power to prevent them being covered with hideous advertisements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-14a.2016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-15", "file": "debates1934-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c76e3e69353cf4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MacANDREW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MacANDREW", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the march is apparently organised by the Communist party, would it not be advisable to take steps to prevent the marchers coming to the Metropolis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-15", "file": "debates1934-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c76e3e69353cf4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2079.4", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not cognisant of the numerous regrets that have been expressed, both in the High Courts and in magistrates' courts at not being able to inflict the penalty of flogging in flagrant cases of cruelty, and will he not see that the only way to teach the meaning of pain is to inflict pain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2079.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-15", "file": "debates1934-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c76e3e69353cf4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Is it to be the prerogative of a purely private organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-15", "file": "debates1934-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c76e3e69353cf4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2180.1", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " Chamber of Commerce which was attended by the British Minister, on behalf of the British Ambassador, the President of the Paris Municipal Council, and the Minister of Commerce. The Parliamentary Secretary proceeded to tell the assembled company exactly what he thought of the official economic policy of the French Government, what they had done wrong, and what in his words we \"would not tolerate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-15", "file": "debates1934-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "c76e3e69353cf4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not very enthusiastic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "far from the price of beef going up against the poor, the price of beef is lower than it was in January of last year and very considerably lower than it was when the Government of which the hon. Member for the Don Valley was a supporter was in office, a Government which had the enthusiastic support of the hon. Member for Birkenhead East, the right hon. Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-15a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He should be; that is his fault.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The Noble Lord is not present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will take care about that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "at the language of the Bill, he will find that an aggrieved applicant for unemployment assistance can make his appeal only by the permission of the chairman of the tribunal, so that there is no prima facie right to an unemployment assistance allowance. I urge hon. Members opposite to realise this fact because this is going to be the foremost problem in British political life for some time to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ort of legislation which I very much envy. He said that the need test was a step forward, that it was a marked improvement on the existing situation—and that applicants would be better treated under it than they are being treated now. Indeed, he suggested that they might be better treated under it than they are under Unemployment Insurance because their need will be taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ed under it than they are under Unemployment Insurance because their need will be taken into consideration. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is in the Bill.\"] Yes, it is in the Bill but it will not be in the administration. Really the hon. Member is too ingenuous. The pur- pose of this part of the Bill is to make the condition of the applicant for unemployment assistance worse than that of the insured person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "nmouthshire which are administered by Labour authorities? I frankly confess that I am alarmed by the prospect of what may happen in South Wales when these unemployment assistance allowance officers set to work. If Durham is to be taken as a pattern the situation in South Wales will be desperate and I suggest to hon. Members that there is a limit to what men will put up with—a definite limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "e the matter in any way. That is what I am impressing upon hon. Members. No public assistance committee, no Member of Parliament, no elected person of any sort will be able to intervene with these paid officials of the Unemployment Assistance Board. Anyone who has had any experience of Poor Law administration knows very well that you can never trust a permanent official to treat the poor decently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "he Minister to have a free hand here, and that is what the Amendment is for. We wish him to put his regulations before this House so that we may discuss the pros and cons of those regulations. As far as I understand, that is the idea of this House of Commons, that we should come together here in order to discuss things. We are supposed to be here to make our imprint on the laws of our native land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ake advantage of our rights as Members of Parliament to argue out the point here on the Floor of the House. There is no doubt that there are not only Members of this House but there is a spirit abroad to-day with a view of not allowing us the right to give expression to our point of view. There are individuals in this House who take a delight in trying to keep us from expressing our point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-19", "file": "debates1934-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d6920d9b9b8fc3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "away from working with their hands. They ought, therefore, to encourage us who are, as they are always pretending to be, looking after the interests of the country first. This is something in which we can render human service, and about which they know nothing. It is because we feel that the Minister would make a mistake; because he has no personal experience of what it is to work in a mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-19a.151.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-20", "file": "debates1934-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "eb0d9f0c9e5aa403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.194.6", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 31, line 41, to leave out \"with the approval of the Minister,\" and to insert: in accordance with regulations to be made by the Minister. I rise to address the Committee in difficult circumstances but if hon. Members will behave themselves they will be able to hear what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.194.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-20", "file": "debates1934-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "eb0d9f0c9e5aa403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Will he say so?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Before the Solicitor-General replies, may I point out that the approval of the Minister goes both to the provision of the training courses and also to the maintenance of the courses, and, therefore, the Minister is, in my submission, quite clearly responsible for the maintenance of these courses, and could be challenged on the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.216.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-20", "file": "debates1934-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "eb0d9f0c9e5aa403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "all be laid before the House of Commons before they are agreed to. The Minister thinks that the words in the Bill are sufficient, and that he alone should have the right of approving the regulations. One could understand that point of view if the Minister of Labour never made any mistake, but our experience is that the present Minister of Labour has made more mistakes than any of his predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-20", "file": "debates1934-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "eb0d9f0c9e5aa403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The point which the Committee was discussing before the hon. Member for Spennymoor (Mr. Batey) intervened, was one which raised an important question of principle under Part II. I did not hear the earlier part of the Debate, but I heard the hon. Member for Maxton", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-20a.232.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "t you cannot, in principle, distinguish this sum from many similar resources which a man might have. You might have the difficult question of a voluntary pension from an employer, and it might be said with equal force that if you did not take into account the reservist's pay, you should not take into account the voluntary pension. If you made the concession in one case you must do it in the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "tter you are perpetuating the old system of the Poor Law, that you are taking every penny into account, even what is needed for the doctor and the nurse, and are not going to allow any other recourse except to the public assistance committee, even in the case of childbirth? There is not a Member on the Government Benches who can get up and explain that this gives any concession to any working man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.846.5", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "May I rise on quite a different point of Order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"These are special cases!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": "nd here I speak for myself—have fought battles for nearly 19 years in London, in order to make it impossible that a man should be sent into an institution simply and solely because he was unemployed. The Minister will admit that if the men were not unemployed obviously he would have no control over them. It is because the men are unemployed that they can be dealt with under this arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "preceding_text": "e training centre, let us try it. But unless the Minister gets that point clearly into the minds of the master of the institution and the Poor Law committee I think he is going to be disappointed. I am not challenging that conception of the \"house.\" Hon. Members who have been to the workhouse many times and—many hon. Members of the Opposition have, I believe, been there far more than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " and if he leaves the workhouse he dies, unless he walks back into it again. It is true that there is an appeal tribunal under which a man may appeal, but this man is helpless. He has no appeal to an elected person. He cannot raise a matter before any public tribunal, and as far as I know he cannot have any adequate means of defence. Therefore, you are sentencing the man to perpetual imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.875.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-26", "file": "debates1934-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "64cf3a9e37ded25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What! A woman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "But the board will not have a chance. Look at the facts. A girl of 19, 20 or 21 who appears before that board will be shaking from the very moment she goes in. I have seen what happens at courts of referees. Men are tongue-tied there. I have seen cases in which the chairman of the court of referees was anxious to award them benefit and yet they were tongue-tied and could not speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-26a.886.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "But seeing that such a long time has elapsed since 1932, when the Government took this step, that there is no improvement in trade, and that there is such a huge number of sufferers, will they not reconsider the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.929.5", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "Just a minute, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.929.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.929.7", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "of men who to a large extent were responsible for placing him at the head of this Government. I ask him, having regard to the position that he holds to-day, to concede to these men what is a citizen right, granted to nearly every other section of the community. The answer that I am here or that the hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) is here is no answer. Every person, every interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.929.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "preceding_text": "ey should go to the districts where the burden is greatest and where the need for relief is also greatest. I would remind the Chancellor of the Exchequer of his own political record in this matter. One of the greatest achievements of the last Conservative Governments was the De-rating Act and the grants that were made under it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that that is not disputed now by anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Praiseworthy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " the State. Somebody else will have the job. Where there are many more men than jobs the fact that one man refuses to accept a job means, simply, that some other man goes off the State and takes the job. The State has to carry no heavier burden. So there is no point in that at all. The refusal to accept a job is not a heinous thing at all, it is normally done under the Unemployment Insurance Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " the board do not correct their mistake by the following Tuesday at the very latest, the man's money will have run out, and, although the determination may have been for four weeks, the man will go to the officer of the board and will say, \"Look here, there is no bread, no sugar and no tea in my cupboard. My money has run out.\" He will automatically be able to secure a reconsideration of his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Samuelites.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "nch as a delegate to the Congress; the second was a member of the Glasgow Town Council, and a member of the party to which I belong; the third was the organiser of the unemployed workers; and the fourth was myself. Among the 396 men there were Communists, Labour party supporters, members of the Independent Labour party, trade unionists, men who belonged to no political party in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Buses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "nt. They left Glasgow in order to come here to the seat of Government to make representations to the Government concerning injustices that they feel and under which they exist. It is surely a legitimate line of activity for men to come to the seat of Government to make known their grievances. The only difference between rich and poor men is that rich men travel by rail and poor men travel by road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "ad. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Buses!\"] It is a poor joke to use with regard to men who have walked on route marches 520 miles to say that they have taken omnibuses. They took omnibuses for eight miles on a day when they were marching 28 miles over Shap. They took omnibuses for eight miles and marched for 20 miles. It would have been absolutely criminal to have taken them the whole of those 28 miles by road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "l disorder by the worst section of the populace of the Metropolis. We all know what happened last year when the comparatively few and tragic set of hunger marchers came to London. There were regrettable disturbances, caused not so much by the hunger marchers as by the camp-followers and the hangers-on. The right hon. Gentleman when he stood up this afternoon advocated the hearing at the Bar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e question of what are constitutional rights. I am not going to bother about constitutional rights. I am going to bother about democratic principles; and the basis of democracy is meeting the people and discussing with them. The basis of autocracy is, \"Do not listen to reason; crush the voice of the other fellow.\" That is autocracy. That is what the Prime Minister announced from that Box to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ratic principles; and the basis of democracy is meeting the people and discussing with them. The basis of autocracy is, \"Do not listen to reason; crush the voice of the other fellow.\" That is autocracy. That is what the Prime Minister announced from that Box to-night. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I say yes. The right hon. Gentleman says, \"The voice of these unemployed marchers is a voice we do not like.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-27", "file": "debates1934-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fd7f180c52c46bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1082.5", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "came down with me to Downing Street to-day are men who have fought in physical combat to preserve for him the right of free speech? I wonder does he know that there were men with me to-day who took the last pence out of their pockets to make his political leadership possible in this country? He says now, \"I am in 10, Downing Street. You are unemployed; you are extremists. I am sitting here—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-27a.1082.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-02-28", "file": "debates1934-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "919bbf4104f3b172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1141.6", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "POPULATION OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "But I am advancing reasons. I want to get admission for people who live in my division and who are here. They are unemployed. I want them to be admitted in order that they may see me. I am demanding that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-28", "file": "debates1934-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "919bbf4104f3b172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "POPULATION OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " advocating a slowing down or \"a thin trickle\" of migration. What are the comparative prospects of community settlement and the other kind of settlement as regards placing large numbers of people in the Dominions? My hon. and gallant Friend gives certain figures in his proposal for community settlement. He suggests that it will be possible to settle 40,000 families in 10 years under this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1170.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-28", "file": "debates1934-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "919bbf4104f3b172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1203.6", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I have never suggested that an hon. Member in this House was a property owner and that he was asking for this £9,000 per acre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1203.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-02-28", "file": "debates1934-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "919bbf4104f3b172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Surely, it is a common thing in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-02-28a.1204.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-01", "file": "debates1934-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b5a17d93caf1b2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "de Agreement concluded by the late Government in April, 1930, did nothing of that kind, but the development of wireless has created a new and immense opportunity for propaganda of a kind that we should never dream of indulging in in another country, but which is invading every home in Great Britain. I do not often have time to listen to the wireless but on Sunday last I listened for an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-01", "file": "debates1934-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b5a17d93caf1b2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "preceding_text": "ted to these members of the trade delegation and that granted to British representatives. It has transpired in the Debate that those who have criticised the agreement have given different reasons for opposing it. The Noble Lady the Member for Perth and Kinross (Duchess of Atholl) endeavoured to link up the question of trade with Russia with an extraneous matter, namely, the question of propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-01", "file": "debates1934-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b5a17d93caf1b2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made it clear that I was not referring to State debts but to debts which have no political significance at all, and to bank balances of small people involving sums like £100 or £200. That is quite apart from the Lena and the Russo-Asiatic——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-01", "file": "debates1934-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b5a17d93caf1b2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "is agreement is not only going to be used for the purpose of developing trade, but also for the purpose of developing good relations between the two countries in a general way. I agree very much with what the right hon. Member for Tamworth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland) said as regards the undesirability of interference in political matters of this kind by the Third International or any other body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-01", "file": "debates1934-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b5a17d93caf1b2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "nt, I come to some of the criticisms and inquiries which have been made. The right hon. Baronet the Member for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair) hardly concealed his delight with the agreement. So far as I could see, his only quarrel with it was that it should have been made long ago. But I would remind him that it is only by the exercise of the tariff bargaining power that we have been able to make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-01a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-02", "file": "debates1934-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e713d8e92a269d7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-02a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT (1925) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARTIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is very common!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARTIN", "preceding_text": "hand, a good deal of later suffering would have been prevented, as well as compensation payments. I hope the hon. Member will give us the benefit of his knowledge in this respect when we come to the Committee stage. He also referred to the question of miners nystagmus. I was surprised when he said that miners who suffer from nystagmus for any length of time are subject to fits of depression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-02a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-05", "file": "debates1934-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e585849adfab4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-05a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Inflation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": ", becoming aware of capital investment, suddenly turns into development and thereby draws heavily upon its accounts, which is what we rely upon to plunder. The plant, growing in this way, reversed our early expectations. The yield turned out to be very great. The amount of beet sugar content, the invested capital in those beets, was poor. I should also mention that the workers were very efficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-05a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-06", "file": "debates1934-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2780716f8fb85f6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-06a.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE AND SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "f the effort which Britain makes to maintain an army in India. It is our duty to make this effort, because, if we did not do so, if we did not maintain this Army in India, India would fall immediately into anarchy and civil war, and, after a brief period of turbulence and disorder, the probabilities are that history would see another conqueror, either from across the seas or through the mountains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-06a.1689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-06", "file": "debates1934-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2780716f8fb85f6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-06a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That shows how difficult it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "he rest of it. I beg the House not to regard a draft scheme in its first form, as this is, as a finished article. One other general observation I will make. As the House knows, any petitioner can petition this House to have a scheme considered by the House. Up to date there have been passed no fewer than 89 schemes, and in the case of only three have there been petitions for the House to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-06a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-07", "file": "debates1934-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cc1deb8985b1d967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-07a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH ATLANTIC SHIPPING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty-six years and two weeks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ver, or the value of the 10 White Star ships to be taken over. So that you are in the position of talking about a new company, the value of the actual assets of which you do not know. There may be some understanding in private, but, so far as this House is concerned, we do not know. Let us remember that many of these ships have been built some years. Take the \"Mauretania.\" She is now 26 years old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-07a.1836.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-07", "file": "debates1934-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cc1deb8985b1d967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-07a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH HYDROCARBON OILS PRODUCTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What constituency do you represent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "preceding_text": "ma is perfectly clear. Either the Chancellor of the Exchequer wants that money or he does not. If he needs that money, and if we lose £1,000,000 by not importing oil which would pay that duty, he must put on new taxation to make good the loss. If on the other hand he would have had a surplus of £1,000,000, a reduction of taxation which would have been possible will no longer be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-07a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-03-08", "file": "debates1934-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5485821bbcfcd35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-08a.1996.8", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "May the House be assured that the Government are watching these negotiations and affording the textile delegation the fullest assistance which lies in their power, and that they are endorsing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-08a.1996.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-08", "file": "debates1934-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5485821bbcfcd35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-08a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "No doubt the speech to which we have just listened has made all the Members of this House feel more comfortable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-08a.2078.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-09", "file": "debates1934-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a774e2fd43a5ab05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2173.3", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "estigated, as I have, the position of Scottish shops knows the hardship that is involved upon these poor people who are trying to eke out an existence. However, they represent only two per cent. of the total number of shops that are open in Scotland on Sunday. There is also the question of newspapers. I do not take much exception to newspapers; in fact, I read a newspaper myself on Sunday evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2173.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-09", "file": "debates1934-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a774e2fd43a5ab05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "preceding_text": "means they have of reuniting the family, or renewing friendship. If a working man wants to seize his one chance of visiting relatives, I am not the one to stand in his way and make his journey more uncomfortable. Moreover, a change of air is the best and most refreshing of all holidays, and surely our Sabbath day should be looked forward to, not only as a day of worship, but also as a day of rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2194.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-09", "file": "debates1934-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a774e2fd43a5ab05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2236.1", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " no such trading. Why are the railways left out? The motor omnibus companies are left out. A neutral commission or as neutral as the Government could make it—and it was appointed by the late Labour Government under the Transport Act—actually decided that in Inverness the omnibus companies should have greater running powers. Sunday omnibus traffic has extended considerably in the north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-09a.2236.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-13", "file": "debates1934-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cc2eac798464e1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NORTH", "preceding_text": " the Chelmsford Committee, and it is not for the Labour party to blame the National Government for implementing the recommendations of that committee. Much has been said about the Bill being retrospective in character but what about the Finance Bill? What about Supplementary Estimates? Every time a Minister comes to this House to ask for a Supplementary Estimate, is not that equally retrospective?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-13", "file": "debates1934-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cc2eac798464e1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ce he took on that high and responsible post, apart from his own personal inclinations as a man and a Christian. I appeal to him on behalf of those miners, those members of the working class who have had the intelligence to send us here—because again we have to remember that nothing was done for the working-class until the working-class sent working-class representatives here to defend them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-13", "file": "debates1934-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cc2eac798464e1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "It is criminal on the part of any Government to restrict expenditure upon research into the safety and health of miners. The Government all the time have made a set against the miners of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-13", "file": "debates1934-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cc2eac798464e1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.327.8", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Appeal to your own party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " have had a Bill before them that it was essential they should discuss, and that it should not be rushed through. Hon. Members are quite prepared to stay tonight and I want to know the reason why we cannot stay. The very idea that because it is going to take the House two or three hours to discuss this matter it is to be put back for another week. I appeal to the Prime Minister and the Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.327.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-03-13", "file": "debates1934-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cc2eac798464e1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Sing it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "le from Yorkshire. First let me, even if it is a forlorn hope, try to overcome the incredulity of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary in this matter. Yesterday, in answer to a question with regard to a resolution passed by a regional committee, he said quite distinctly that he did not believe my information. With the permission of the House, I will read the resolution that was passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-13a.330.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-14", "file": "debates1934-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "58b53cf0499e8c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-14a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": " not in the least afraid to say, speaking for myself, that I would like to see Locarno strengthened. There is the analogy of the Great War. It is almost indisputable now that if Germany had realised that in her attack on France she would be certain to have the swift and smashing force and might of the British Empire against her, even then, at the last hour, she would have hesitated and drawn back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-14a.447.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-14", "file": "debates1934-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "58b53cf0499e8c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-14a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "n, which show why it is that this kind of question is much more directly in the public mind than it used to be. In the old days, and not so long ago, we were engaged in this House and outside continually in some sharp-cut, bitter domestic controversy, whatever it was, Home Rule, the Parliament Act, or whatever it may have been. We have our controversies now, but they are nothing like so sharp-cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-14a.481.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-15", "file": "debates1934-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "cbb2eb029ee35657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-15a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "preceding_text": "ion, who have been to the Academy, and an old official will probably show the book in which the misdeeds of General Gordon as a cadet are recorded. All over the world, British officers look back to Woolwich with the affection with which a man looks back to his home or his school. No doubt a strong case can be made out on the grounds of economy for amalgamating Eton College and Harrow School—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-15a.589.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-16", "file": "debates1934-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c67ae587ebe612da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-16a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES REGULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "modation. For about eight years I had, as Secretary of a company, an office in Victoria Street. The office had originally been built as a flat, as were a great many of those offices. There were, I think, seven persons working in that office. It was a very comfortable office, and I only left it to go to the Board of Trade, and from the point of view of pure comfort I gained nothing by the transfer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-16a.764.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-19", "file": "debates1934-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "416b835df03bdd0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-19a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain JAMES MacANDREW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain JAMES MacANDREW", "preceding_text": "let) asked the other day what it costs to send a \"Times\" newspaper to India, and the answer was that the cost was round about 7s. 6d. But that is what it costs the individual who posts it. When you take the question of the subsidy into consideration the cost immediately becomes a very much bigger figure. I myself did flying, but I do not do any now, and I have no intention of ever doing any again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-19a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-20", "file": "debates1934-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd68397c4dd37328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not burn them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILNE", "preceding_text": "g of this Bill. But there is one feature of it which calls for criticism. It is not con- cerned with the proposed increase in the penalties. The Secretary of State has told us that the existing ones have proved wholly insufficient, and for my pant, if there is any fault to be found with the penalties in the Bill, I think it is that they are not severe enough. I would have welcomed penal servitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-20", "file": "debates1934-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd68397c4dd37328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "ittle chance of pleading successfully against the Scottish laws. I think that that is grossly unfair, and I hope very much that we shall hear from the Secretary of State for Scotland that there will be some amelioration of it. Take the law of trespass—I use the English term. If you go trespassing in Scotland you are fined a few shillings; and even if you go on to a farm and steal some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-20", "file": "debates1934-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd68397c4dd37328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the North!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "agine nothing more desirable than that this Bill should be, as I hope it will be, successful. It is of the highest importance that we should not further decrease the population of our coastline and our rural districts, particularly the population that lives by the sea and, unless a whole area of Scotland is to go partially derelict, it is of the utmost importance to the West and the Islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-20", "file": "debates1934-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd68397c4dd37328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1166.5", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "y to judge whether the couple will permanently stay on the holding. It is easy to complain, as hon. Members have complained—and I am not taking exception to it—that the numbers we are providing are few. We want to build well. We want to choose the right people for this scheme. No land settlement scheme in any part of the world has ever been rushed through on a large scale successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-20", "file": "debates1934-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd68397c4dd37328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1181.4", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES REID", "preceding_text": "I should be inclined to agree with the hon. Members who have criticised the Government were it not for the fact that we know that a Bill to deal with slum clearance is to be produced shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-20a.1181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-21", "file": "debates1934-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "994ba2776d433c32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "position of this Minister, having to come forward and demand the entire costs of national defence, with three Services each filled with a bitter resentment against the many changes which would be imposed upon them in their methods of thought and their established practice and routine. Therefore, I advocate an evolutionary process. But let us proclaim the goal; that is what I ask of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-21", "file": "debates1934-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "994ba2776d433c32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "is reliance on the collective security of the League of Nations. I noticed that in referring to that aspect the Prime Minister said no doubt it might be so, but that we did not get pooled security to-day. If I may venture to say so, that is largely the fault of the present British Government, because they have not pursued with sufficient vigour and resolution their policy of disarmament at Geneva.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-21", "file": "debates1934-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "994ba2776d433c32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " the last two days. I yield to no one in my desire to see employment increasing in Lancashire, and to see the Japanese menace tackled in the proper way, but it will not be done by antagonising Japan at this moment. We have to be extraordinarily careful because there are other interests concerned all over the country, and not only in Lancashire. If we antagonise Japan what about our tinplate trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-21", "file": "debates1934-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "994ba2776d433c32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Low wages and depreciating the yen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " anything unfair competition if it is successful. The Japanese, admittedly owing to certain circumstances in their country which we do not possess, have in some respects beaten us in some parts of the cotton trade, and we know we are beaten; but they have not done it in an unfair way. They have done it perfectly honestly and openly, by extraordinary ability and by the industry of their own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1346.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-03-21", "file": "debates1934-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "994ba2776d433c32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE COMPETITION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "Those people whose trade marks are infringed have their remedies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-21a.1348.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-03-22", "file": "debates1934-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "77d4d63fa7ecd9cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-22a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What was the date?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "r, and that the same personnel would be required, in the same places and to the same extent as before, has had a profound influence on the treatment of unemployment and the makeshift developments of the insurance scheme for several years. It was a policy of 'tide-over,' with prosperity always waiting 'just round the corner.' Such a diagnosis and treatment can, unfortunately, no longer be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-22a.1392.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "of the Treasury. They are not disinterested bodies, and, naturally, they would like to improve even upon our magnanimous terms. But any impartial person examining how this matter could be settled would be forced to rely, if anything were to be done at all, upon the precedent set up by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield in the Mental Treatment Act. He found a way of doing this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1664.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1701.6", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "It has come to this, that the hon. Member is insisting on arguing against my Ruling. I am afraid I must warn him, I think this is the third time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1701.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1710.3", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a detail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "by rules. I do not think that the Committee would desire me to refer to all the places in this Act where rules are mentioned. Reference has been made to one or two, and I suggest to the Committee that these are very proper matters to be dealt with in the delegative way proposed by the Bill. There is, for instance, the period of occasional sickness or incapacity which may take a man out of Part II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1739.3", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "es have grave doubts as to whether under existing conditions it is worth while coming here, and if this system were to go on to a much greater extent my mind would be made up entirely—not that the political ideas I have would have to be dropped, but I should have to make up my mind that they would have to be achieved by some other method. We have had certain promises from the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "You did not know your job as Minister. You were unable to explain your own Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "of Parliament should have the right to represent the claims of those people upon the Floor of the House of Commons, and yet the hon. Member to whom I have referred comes here and jeers. This, I submit, is the last chance that we shall have, and the hon. Member does not seem to realise it. I am not concerned about quibbles, but about the real and human meaning of what is happening in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-26", "file": "debates1934-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90bd6c74254b2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e do not know who the six are; they may be six men divorced from the common people; six people with no actual contact from day to day with the realities of life. We give to those six men powers that the House of Commons has for many years fought to possess. Why did this Government come into office? Why did the Labour party come into being? The answer is simple; it was poverty that brought them in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-26a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-03-27", "file": "debates1934-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "48872dda05e44868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-27a.1795.2", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OIL SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ot changed my mind about it at all. If the hon. Member will read the report, he will see that it does not bear out what he says. For instance, on page 25, it says: Operations under the Pearson agreement have consisted in testing the most promising structures by sinking 11 wells, five of which were carried to a depth of over 4,000 feet and three to depths of between 3,000 and 4,000 feet. One—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-27a.1795.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-28", "file": "debates1934-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "69ce9a6c92f85e9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-28a.1986.9", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The list was not original!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "nt, only served to prevent its financial position from becoming worse. While to some extent the colliery owners have been at fault in their administration of the schemes, some owners have evaded its provisions. A year ago I gave a long list of these evasions. I notice that in a pamphlet by the Miners' Federation they have taken the list without acknowledging the source. I am, therefore, flattered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-28a.1986.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-03-28", "file": "debates1934-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "69ce9a6c92f85e9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-28a.2015.3", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And of the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "h grouped together under one heading as \"coal\" are in fact greatly diversified in their products and their markets. We are often told about the stupidity of the leaders in this industry on the men's side and the owners' side. When people talk about the coal trade, about a coal Bill, or about coal problems or coal disputes, the first thing they talk about is the stupidity of the owners and the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-03-28a.2015.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-09", "file": "debates1934-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "5c48947f209f4fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "and of the cream used by confectioners. If we could stop the importation of this so-called cream we could use a great deal of our surplus milk. It is a most pressing and urgent question. I should like to say a few words about the bacon marketing scheme. That scheme, on the whole, has been a success. Large quantities of bacon are now being made in England and Englishmen are being used in making it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-09", "file": "debates1934-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "5c48947f209f4fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "ct of the recent milk award. There is a terribly strong feeling about it. Even the man who has hitherto sold large quantities of his milk as fresh milk will be lucky if he gets two-thirds of the cost of production. The thing to do is to look ahead and to see if anything can be done with regard to the future. Unfortunately, the future is rather remote because apparently this award holds for a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-09", "file": "debates1934-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "5c48947f209f4fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "d by difficulties and traps of all kinds, and we have already experienced a few, and the First Commissioner of Works has also handsomely confirmed the view we then took. I ask the Members of the Government, \"Do they think a plebiscite among farmers about the Milk Board would find a majority in favour of it.\" I am sure it would not. These schemes already stand condemned in the minds of the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-09", "file": "debates1934-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "5c48947f209f4fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ides, and rather than condemn the right hon. Gentleman and his Department for being inactive, I would like to pay them my personal mead of praise for the work on which they are engaged. Members on all sides of the House are profoundly interested in housing, for it is no party question, and I refuse to allow my friends on the Socialist Benches to assume that they only are interested in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-09", "file": "debates1934-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "5c48947f209f4fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To let?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " completely inaccurate. The best figure that I can give the House to show what the activity in small house building has been is this—it is, I think, the latest reliable figure forthcoming—that in the six months to the end of September last the number of small houses built by local authorities and private enterprise combined for the lower-paid wage earners was between 55,000 and 60,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-09a.106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "Obviously, it would be impossible to say what the loss would be. The loss would depend upon the number of persons who took out assurances. If assurances were taken out to the full amount of the duty payable, the Exchequer would cease to receive anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION (INTERNATIONAL ISATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Would it not assist those outside the House who are anxious to assist the Government with expert advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (DISFRANCHISEMENT OF NEGLIGENT ELECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was speaking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "t that our votes are recorded. Do we carry that out? Even last night on the first day after Easter I did an unpopular thing when, at ten minutes past eight o'clock, I rose and called for a count. Why? Because there were only 22 people in the House, and we were discussing the important question of housing. I did an unpopular thing by calling for a count in order to get more people into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or 20 Members of the Liberal party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "lieve the reason why the public are not more concerned is that they do not see these things and that most of the people killed and injured are unknown people. I have some sort of idea that if one day next week the 20 people killed included five Members of His Majesty's Government, five Members of the House of Commons, a couple of Archbishops, two international footballers and Mr. Len Harvey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " put all the onus upon the motorist and the motor. That is a proposal that has been made in another place, and it has had the support of some of the most eminent legal authorities in this country. It is a proposal that at any rate has this for its warrant, that on every occasion when a man is run down the one who can give the least evidence as to what has happened is the man who has been run down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and gallant Gentleman will find that in 1933 we have gone back very much as compared with the previous year. I noticed that last year the number of deaths was 7,202 as against 6,600 in 1933.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-10", "file": "debates1934-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "0871654089e3c384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give them the cat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, I think so. I am supporting this Bill, and I am now rather on the question of reek-less driving. There is no shadow of doubt in my mind that the only way to cure these gentlemen who drive without regard to the safety of their fellow-citizens is to punish them, and to punish them ruthlessly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-10a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-11", "file": "debates1934-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "427dd05f43d511fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you prosecute?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ding that we do not know that lying has taken place, and we will definitely say you are not a fit member of the Army, because your age is not what you stated it to be, and you have got in under false pretences.\" After all, false pretence in many regards is a crime in law, but false pretence in joining the Army, apparently, is not. False pretence, if you join the Army, is considered to be a virtue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-11", "file": "debates1934-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "427dd05f43d511fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " a scandal that the benches here this afternoon should be almost empty as per usual when Scottish affairs are being discussed. Every time we discuss Scottish affairs we find the same thing, and this fact is thrown at us in Scotland as a ground for demanding Scottish Home Rule. Here we are discussing a question which means life or death to this hardy and intelligent race; and the benches are empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.375.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-04-11", "file": "debates1934-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "427dd05f43d511fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-11a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-13", "file": "debates1934-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "3cf914ab46e2039f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIREARMS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " from buying articles of this nature. It would be better to lay it down clearly to the shopkeepers that there should be a perfectly clear add open transaction in every case between those who are responsible for the boy and the boy himself. The ordinary air-gun can carry a considerable distance, and has considerable penetrative power. It could penetrate the heads of most Conservatives in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-13", "file": "debates1934-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "3cf914ab46e2039f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN (WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "aw. On that date the Adoption of Children Act, 1926, came into operation. It was introduced, as in this case, by a private Member, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for East Surrey (Mr. Galbraith). That Act made legal adoption possible. The hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. R. Davies) has said that the next time a Socialist Government comes into office it will deal with workmen's compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-13", "file": "debates1934-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "3cf914ab46e2039f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT (1925) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "erefore, the analogy does not exist. The Bill says that, if a coalowner goes into bankruptcy, a man who drives a lorry delivering coal is not entitled to claim compensation. If it can be argued that a man who is employed by the coal owner in delivering coal is not employed for the purposes of the mine, these people will be denied the right of compensation in the event of an injury being sustained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-13", "file": "debates1934-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "3cf914ab46e2039f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "her of the jockey or the horse, or any antagonism even on the part of those who lost. I reinforce the plea made by my hon. Friend to those hon. Members who may have slight doubts. We undertake to devise a form of words, before the Committee stage, which will take place next Friday, to ensure that only the rodeo is affected by this Bill and no other form of sport will be antagonised or upset by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-13a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "The matter which is now under discussion is one about which, perhaps, I ought to say a word in view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. CHURCHILL rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.727.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What is that from?", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "ey say, in the \"Soldiers' Voice,\" of May, 1932: Leaflets were printed in English, French and Japanese, and careful plans were laid for their distributions. They were strewn on parade grounds, stuck on walls and fences, put in the dance halls and cabarets frequented by men of the Forces, and many soldiers and sailors alike were surprised to find leaflets in their pockets or thrust into their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "pon liberty as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I hope that he will be associated with the withdrawal of this Bill. I do not know whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman has read the Bill. He has been very busy writing a letter of support to a candidate down at Basingstoke, who is opposed to the White Paper and who stands, as he has declared, for isolation in international affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Must we have it again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "trial by jury. I gather that a provision is to be added to the Bill to the effect that any person charged with any offence under this Act, if he so desires, will be able to be tried by jury at any time if the matter arises, and not be forced to submit to summary jurisdiction. I only desire to say that we have heard a great deal about liberty, but we have to distinguish between liberty and licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "rates and to a large degree I would support the contention of the hon. and gallant Gentleman if it were true that the magistrate alone, from the comfort of his own armchair, actually issued the search warrant, but the truth of the matter is that the magistrates do not issue search warrants in those conditions. They are advised by the highest possible legal adviser within their specific area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The lot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "ome of my own papers, and I think if this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament I had better look carefully to what I have in my own house. If a search takes place there and certain leaflets and pamphlets are found, apparently I am \"for it\" under this Measure, though I have never been charged up to the present with disloyalty. But I want the Solicitor-General to tell me what documents am I to destroy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": "at they should bring in a Bill with, apparently, very little or no reason at all, and to set people wondering what is at the back of it all. The Attorney-General said that they wanted to protect the interests of the poor, ignorant men who distributed this literature. I am sure the Attorney-General knows as much, or perhaps more about these matters than I do, and he must know as well as I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "lass life. I want the House to realise the position that arises. There are numbers of men and women of all classes and all parties who have signed manifestos declaring themselves in favour of no more war, that they will take no part in any future wars, and they will advise all they come in contact with not to have anything to do with war in any shape or form. Someone who knows me does not like me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-16", "file": "debates1934-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8342b2e70faef187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "elatives in the Black Watch and that they might be an effective battalion against any Guards that came here; but what that hon. Member said, and what I said in reply is not the point. The point is what was in the mind of that hon. Member; the class feeling that was there, that if a Labour Government came into power he and his class would use their relatives in the Army, officers in the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-16a.837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-17", "file": "debates1934-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "734acf4f8825d495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-17a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I rise with the spokesmen of the various other parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-17a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-18", "file": "debates1934-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf07fabd0509a331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.971.8", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capitalism paid it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " bound to be maintained. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), broadcasting some two or three weeks ago, said that on unemployment benefit, since the middle of 1920, this country has spent £1,100,000,000. I do not deplore, so far as the right of the people to receive it is concerned, one penny of that expenditure, much as I regret the necessity for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.971.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-18", "file": "debates1934-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf07fabd0509a331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " supply. On the basis of January and February of this year the overprice paid to the foreign producers for our supply for 1934 will amount to a further £11,000,000 or £12,000,000.' I have quoted from a Liberal newspaper. It is true that it is a report without any editorial comment. Let me now quote from what, I think, is a Conservative paper—the \"Birmingham Gazette,\" of 16th March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-18", "file": "debates1934-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf07fabd0509a331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wholesale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "cwt. was £2,111,085 more than was paid for a similar quantity in 1931–32 at 48s. per cwt. If the right hon. Gentleman still cares to tell me that the foreigner pays, I shall be most interested indeed to hear the argument as to how that operation is sustained. I know that the Government have maintained openly and frankly that it is part of their policy to raise the prices of commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-18", "file": "debates1934-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf07fabd0509a331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-18", "file": "debates1934-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf07fabd0509a331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "trade that has been reduced almost to a shadow. It is better to be second in a trade which is of some substance than to be first in a trade reduced to a shadow. Trade throughout the world has been very much contracted, largely because, as the Chancellor pointed out, of economic nationalism and systems of quotas and tariffs, which of course destroy foreign trade. We live by our foreign trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-18a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-19", "file": "debates1934-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "38a1340e6bf09607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ch we are now well accustomed, explained the new situation. In a speech of great sobriety, the very restraint of which at times partook of the character of eloquence, he expounded to us the figures which are the symbols of Britain's emergence from the morass of her difficulties. He presented a Budget in which is restored in full measure the unemployment benefit which obtained before the year 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-19", "file": "debates1934-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "38a1340e6bf09607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "me prospect of our honouring our word of honour by paying back to the people from whom we borrowed money when we were in the most difficult position in the world—honouring our obligations to our own flesh and blood, not from the point of view of being able to borrow again, but in order that we may continue to hold up our heads internationally as we have done in this Parliament for 700 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-19", "file": "debates1934-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "38a1340e6bf09607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " We may regretfully realise that the purpose of the Liberal party has ceased to exist, but we are grateful that anxiety need no longer be suffered by the few remaining individuals of that party. What is more important is that the proof of the efficacy of tariffs has been a knock-out blow to Socialism. But for the tariffs it would not have been possible to restore the cuts or reduce taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-19", "file": "debates1934-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "38a1340e6bf09607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "s. They do not realise that we have £35,000,000 of new revenue from tariffs, if the Free State be included, and that that has alone made it possible for my right hon. Friend to restore the position. We could not have had a surplus this year but for the wise policy which has been adopted and which has given such a stimulus in all these varied directions. I should have thought that was obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-19", "file": "debates1934-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "38a1340e6bf09607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Flamboyant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "to the question of the Death Duties, I agree that on that question there is room for difference of opinion. You may take the Death Duties, or the Stamp Duties, or Customs, and you may say that on any of these items you take a pessimistic view, or an optimistic view, or something between the two. No doubt my right hon. Friend is correct in saying that he is of a more buoyant nature than I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-19a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-20", "file": "debates1934-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a387d5d55aebd388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "I am sure that anybody on this side of the House who has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-20", "file": "debates1934-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a387d5d55aebd388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Must the miners on a non-subsistence wage wait until the problem of distribution has been solved?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "150 years been cutting corners, saving labour here, there and everywhere, and we have got to the piont where the production of goods has become a real problem, we have done it so effectively. I do not see how the mining community can escape from all the limitations and inhibitions bound up in that general discovery and general result. We have got down to the real issue of getting rid of our goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-20", "file": "debates1934-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a387d5d55aebd388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the genesis of this Bill is a desire for a national wage agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-20", "file": "debates1934-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a387d5d55aebd388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that apply in South Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "ere is that harmony between those representing the employers and those working in the industry, is there any need for the House to adopt the suggestion of Clause 1 and to set up for the mining industry what is attempted in no other industry, namely, a minimum wage? Wherever those boards are working in every coal-mining area, there is first-class co-operation between the employers and the employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-20", "file": "debates1934-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a387d5d55aebd388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nowledge not enjoyed by anyone sitting on the Government front bench at the moment. I believe that in the long run there is more to be said against minimum wage legislation than in favour of it. There is always a grave danger of the minimum wage becoming a maximum. None know better than hon. Members opposite who represent mining constituences that the Act of 1912 has largely fallen into desuetude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-20a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE (TOLL CALLS).", "cue_speaker": "The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "The average time taken to obtain an ordinary toll call from London is, according to the latest available returns, 68 seconds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£3,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "gures which occurred last month, and which, fortunately, has been consistent for some months, is to be maintained? Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer assuming that the figures are to remain at the present point, or that there is going to be a fall? The Committee must understand that a fall of 100,000 or a rise of 100,000 means a difference of £4,000,000 a year as far as the fund is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "were waiting until the great mystery day, the great Budget day, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer descends here in a cloud of smoke and goes up in flame as the hero of his supporters. It was left to him, for no reason whatever, to announce the restoration of the cuts in unemployment insurance benefit. Speaking for my hon. Friends, I am bound to say that none of us will vote against this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "that was their intention, and their one ambition and aim has been to make the fund at least self-supporting. Now, as a result of the increased contribution—there is nothing in any new Clause to restore the old contributions—and a diminution of unemployment which is shared by the world and is not confined to this country, nor is it in any way due to the actions of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1449.2", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "hether the cost of living has gone down or not, but whether 2s. is sufficient to maintain a child. I will concede all the figures and facts concerning the cost of living being down. I will admit that the cost of living to-day is a little lower than in 1929. I admit that hon. Members on this side voted for 2s. then. That was acknowledged by one hon. Member who said that the Liberals made him do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNETH LINDSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNETH LINDSAY", "preceding_text": "te, but with regard to the last point—although it is not for me to answer for the right hon. Gentleman—most hon. Members on this side of the Committee were perfectly aware that, in so far as it was an estimable figure, the cuts were to be restored as far as the Government could control them. They could control the restoration of the cuts, but not up to the last point, the final figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1459.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-23", "file": "debates1934-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "14892d81c8614ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is labouring under a slight misapprehension as to the existing law, because in the case that he is outlining the widower is entitled to draw an adult dependant's allowance for the daughter who comes home in those circumstances to look after the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-23a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1529.5", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Things are improving!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "As the situation is getting progressively worse month by month, is it not time that something was done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t, but they have done far more than the Labour Government, because, after all, when we remember that Labour were in opposition for years and years and that when they came in they came in on the promise of raising the school age, giving maintenance grants, and every other thing you can think of, and when they got in they stayed in for 18 months or two years and never attempted to do anything at all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "permission, Captain Bourne, in saying that they have at least done more than the Labour Government ever attempted to do. When they refer to the raising of the school age, they know very well—and the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Morgan Jones) knows it as well as I do—that they put in a contentious Clause which brought in religion, and they did that because they wanted it turned down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "t is that there may be no confusion in the minds of the Committee in regard to where the powers of the Statutory Committee are likely to lead us. We have heard very much in this House in regard to the questions of dictatorship and of constitution, and in fact some Members have been so anxious to give publicity to their faults that they have been asking publicly, \"Whither are we going?\" Quo Vadis ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "The definition of suitable employment brings me down to a narrow point, and I think there are very few Members of the Committee who are strictly in order when they are confined to one particular definition. I take umbrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-24", "file": "debates1934-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "06983bcf9a40f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "The definition of suitable employment brings me down to a narrow point, and I think there are very few Members of the Committee who are strictly in order when they are confined to one particular definition. I take umbrage—[ Laughter. ] If hon. Members do not know the meaning of the word, I will give them a Chamber's Dictionary. I take umbrage at the terms of the Government's proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-24a.1669.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-25", "file": "debates1934-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b24e7777a0a6f50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-25a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "t were an agent of the Crown. Hitherto those two things have been wholly inconsistent in the constitution of the country. The hon. and learned Gentleman says that he is setting up a new body. I am all in favour of setting up new bodies. I think it is an excellent thing to do. On the other hand, I am not in favour of setting up new bodies which are not responsible to the Government and the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-25a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-25", "file": "debates1934-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b24e7777a0a6f50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-25a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"'He knows, he knows '\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "hat is the use of telling him that he can resort to a petition of rights? The procedure is formidable and, in the provinces, expensive. Instead of having the thing thrashed out in the local court in a few days, he perhaps has to suffer what he regards, it may be without reason, as an injustice. I see the Postmaster-General on the Treasury Bench. He knows very well the amount of unpopularity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-25a.1741.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-04-26", "file": "debates1934-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2967de68b096840b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-26a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Expose the ramp\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Then he has apparently not already informed himself of the facts. Here is the letter, and it will make him wise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, get on with it!\"] I do not want to bother the House with technical facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-04-26a.1918.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-04", "file": "debates1934-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "121f90caed4f1e91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-04a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBBBS : \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ht, because the other people have no interest in it. Consequently they have to wait many years until the remainder of the street is made up. Even from the point of view of private enterprise, the hon. Members for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) and South Croydon (Mr. H. Williams) are entirely wrong. Let me say, as one who prefers public enterprise to private enterprise, that I myself am a private owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-04a.644.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-07", "file": "debates1934-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d732f941e8b9d89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " Government Front Bench, for any Measure which restricts the future development and prosperity of those Dominions. This is a clear example, a clear, vivid and conspicuous example of the policy of economic nationalism and self-sufficiency which His Majesty's Government vigorously condemn, but which they energetically pursue—a policy which has reduced our trade to one-half of what it has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-07", "file": "debates1934-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d732f941e8b9d89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Or cheap labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " produce any of its products at a loss. No one believes in the doctrine of cheapness to the extent of believing that efficient industries should be expected to go on for any length of time losing, and producing at prices below the legitimate cost of production. When that is brought about by subsidies or depreciation of currency, any step which is proper should be taken to prevent that eventuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-07", "file": "debates1934-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d732f941e8b9d89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Relatively.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "That answer is hardly worthy of the right hon. Gentleman. He was saying that the result of these calamitous Agreements was that our trade had gone back, but the exact reverse is true. It is a most astonishing thing that, through the period of these Ottawa Agreements, so far from our foreign trade relatively to that of other countries having decreased, it has actually improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.801.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-07", "file": "debates1934-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d732f941e8b9d89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ly well that it was at any rate a possibility that the United Kingdom Government would adopt a policy of such restriction, and, in fact, that policy was started by an agreement with the Dominion Ministers at Ottawa. As regards meat, a certain voluntary restriction was agreed between the Australian Ministers and our own Ministers, and the New Zealand Government themselves gave a certain undertaking", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-07a.876.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-09", "file": "debates1934-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "4fec5b03f8619666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-09a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WARD", "preceding_text": "ommunity, and I am extraordinarily interested to find that hon. Members who apparently stand upon no distinction of any kind should on this occasion differentiate between those who draw Poor Law relief and those who come under ordinary unemployment insurance. I have no wish to do any injustice to the right hon. Member for Wakefield, but I have been at some pains to have all his speeches looked up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-09a.1205.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-11", "file": "debates1934-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "206c11797cad7b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE LOAN [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " be placed in this country. That is a very right and proper provision. I have had an estimate made to within a few thousand pounds of the monetary value to us of contracts placed and to be placed and as near as can be estimated the orders which will directly flow from the scheme and which will be placed in this country, will be somewhere in the region of £600,000. That is not a small benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-11", "file": "debates1934-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "206c11797cad7b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1385.4", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE LOAN [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"The whole loan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman will appreciate that I am an inheritor of the undertaking given by his Government quite clearly in 1930, that the British Government would guarantee the loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-11", "file": "debates1934-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "206c11797cad7b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE LOAN [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"And support Free Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "There is the re-settlement of the Arabs, but that, I understand, is to carry out a pledge of Lord Passfield in 1930. I want to give the Government this warning. The less they carry out the pledges of the late Socialist Government the better it will be for them. I was not returned here to carry out the pledges of the late Socialist Government; I was returned here to upset most of their legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-11", "file": "debates1934-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "206c11797cad7b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE LOAN [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "neer in the motor trade in this country for 37 years, have never even been asked to join the Committee. I am always of a shy and retiring disposition, and I do not wish to push myself where I am not wanted, although I did push myself in the House of Commons when I was not wanted. One feels that, at any rate, when one has a claim such as that which I put before the Minister of Transport only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-11a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "heir regulations, and all that the House of Commons can do is to say \"Yes\" or \"No.\" We cannot amend, alter, add to or initiate. Incidentally, this is another chapter in legislation which is open to great and fundamental objections. It is the creating of a dangerous precedent which may be used by Governments of different character and principle, and with different ideas from the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. WARD", "preceding_text": "w his money. It all came from exactly the same source; yet the agricultural worker had to go to the Poor Law while transitional payment was paid out in a different way. That has been a great hardship in my constituency where there are numbers of farm workers—respectable, decent citizens—who, because they were unemployed, had to draw Poor Law relief. This Bill does away with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. WARD", "preceding_text": "hat—[HON. MEMBERS : \"No!\"] It is doing away with the difference between those who receive poor relief and those who receive transitional payment, and it is putting them into the same category in Part II of the Bill. Another factor that seemed to me a great hardship was that the man who was unemployed and had to draw poor relief had to do test work. This Bill does away with that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN WALLACE", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member : \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN WALLACE", "preceding_text": "not provided us with an excuse for going into the Lobby to demonstrate against the Government. I think it is very hard indeed that in such cases as were cited by the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. J. Reid) the total income of all who are employed should be included in reckoning the family resources, and I am more than glad to see that the Minister of Labour has made provision for dealing with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS : \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "e hoardings this week-end in London I saw posters in which the National Government was advertising what it had done. It is time the Government advertised what it had done, for unless it advertises no one will ever know that it has ever done anything for which it deserves any credit. I do not know who is paying for these great posters. I saw one containing a boast that more men were being employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "preceding_text": "ing. I say that the remainder was entirely due to the maladministration of the Government which was in office at that time, and in that case I am very sorry indeed that the Government did not see fit just to take that amount out of the liability of the fund. I feel that if only hon. Members in the Opposition, instead of always thinking the worst would try and think the best of people——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Under Part I the maximum benefit for a child is 2s. and the Ministry resisted an Amendment to raise it to 3s. The hon. Member said that he was sorry he voted for 3s., because he thinks 3s. is too little, and that under Part II more can be given. Hon. Members in all parts of the House have said that under Part II it will be possible to give more. Of course; but there is nothing more improbable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "their total income came to £2 0s. 6d., which was 6d. over the maximum. In my own county, owing to pressure from the Ministry of Health, the rates of public assistance were lowered in 1931, because the rates of unemployment insurance benefit had been lowered. That happened all over the country. What is the use of hon. Members getting up and lying—deliberately lying—about the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1565.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1566.2", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No, we do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "unemployment benefit. That is the fact. Hon. Members say that 3s. is inadequate, and yet their own Government insist that not more than 2s. shall be paid in Monmouthshire. What is the use of hon. Members, in the face of those facts, making the statements that they do? Hon. Members want to have it both ways. They want to be relieved of immediate personal responsibility for the unemployed man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-14", "file": "debates1934-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "685511816c1a5dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " class prejudices, and at least without any guillotine to curtail the discussions and force them to a decision without being able to give the matter the calm consideration that it ought to receive.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd May, 1934; col. 345, Vol. 289.] That was on 2nd May, and the speech was made by an occupant of the Front Bench opposite. I could not describe the Statutory Committee better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-14a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-05-15", "file": "debates1934-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea2e803689fff0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1608.11", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "And an impudent answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1608.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-05-15", "file": "debates1934-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea2e803689fff0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman prohibit the export of arms from this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-15", "file": "debates1934-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea2e803689fff0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "per cent. of gas where my lamp had to be placed back 10 yards from the working face because of my inability to take it on the other face. If I had groused about it, I would have got the sack, but if I had had the sense which I have later in life, I would not have done it. Providence, however, was exceptionally kind to me. If I had had a defective lamp, I should have gone to my long home years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-15a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-16", "file": "debates1934-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e911e4e9abf4b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BROADCASTING (CENSORSHIP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What is the word?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "Considering the many protests against the use of a certain word on a recent occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-16", "file": "debates1934-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e911e4e9abf4b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Land taxes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "disadvantages of Protection, because, for good or ill, this country has now become a protected country. Whatever the right hon. Gentleman and his friends may say, it is absolutely certain that he will never see the country go back again to the condition in which it was before. There are, of course, several reasons for that. One is that it would be necessary to find a fresh source of revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-16", "file": "debates1934-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e911e4e9abf4b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1843.3", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "preceding_text": "My opinion about the Land Tax is that it is not quite the tax which I should have chosen, but I think it is very much better than none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-16", "file": "debates1934-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e911e4e9abf4b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ADRIAN BAILLIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"And the Surtax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ADRIAN BAILLIE", "preceding_text": "d. to 7d. and from 3d. to 4d., found that he had diminished audiences and, therefore, had to reduce the price once more from 7d. to 6d. and from 4d. to 3d. In that way it may be seen that the tax is no longer an indirect, but a direct tax, especially on the poorer cinema proprietors. May I repeat that, so far as I can see, this is the only 1931 impost that has not been dealt with by way of relief?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-16", "file": "debates1934-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e911e4e9abf4b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1897.3", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"The Green Book.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "No, I admit that I do not understand Liberal policy. We have some Liberals sitting on this side and some are over there, some are in oppostion and some are supporting the Government. What is their policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-16a.1897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-17", "file": "debates1934-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "876bc635b1262afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1980.2", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ns because I think that a man's own words are much better than the words of someone else, but I have an interesting quotation which I should like to read. It is this : But there is another danger of which we should be warned in good time, and thereby avoid its main consequences. We should be very cautious about making too many arrangements which are in the nature of rings. This is a definite ring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1980.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-05-17", "file": "debates1934-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "876bc635b1262afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Author.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " in the preservation of competition, acting under its main stimulus, that we can not only preserve the prospecity of our great industrial and commercial organisations, but can confer further blessings upon the democracy over which we rule.\" That is rather an interesting quotation, and no one will say that it does not apply to the principle of this Bill. It is critical of the principle of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-17", "file": "debates1934-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "876bc635b1262afe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1989.1", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ke to know how that criticism can be substantiated. We must consider that it takes its raw material from thousands of miles away, makes that raw material into manufactured goods, sells its manufactured goods, in greater value and volume than any other manufacturing industry in this country, and exports them to all parts of the world—and it does that to-day just as much as it did in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-17a.1989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-18", "file": "debates1934-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "c81007be02e8cf39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-18a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "elieve to be necessary to give a reality to security as apart from a merely paper security which nobody now believes is likely to be very effective. We have taken up the attitude in this country that we will not consent to be bound in advance by any decision as to aggression or an aggressor. We are not prepared to agree as regards internationalising air forces or internationalising aviation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-18a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-18", "file": "debates1934-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "c81007be02e8cf39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-18a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "n, but, having regard to the communications which I get from so many members of the public, it appears to me that most of my correspondents have not thought about that view. The second reflection is this. I suppose that we are all agreed that we should not approve of some system which, though it can be used with great safety against little people, cannot be used with any safety against big people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-18a.2098.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-29", "file": "debates1934-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "cdc0c62b00840161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-29a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Making of orders.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "Table of the House at all, is sufficiently exact; and, when those Orders are going to have the force of law, and we hear a Member of His Majesty's Government arguing that the House of Commons should have no say in the making of such Orders, it is difficult for the Committee to understand whether they are sitting in this Chamber at the present moment or in Olympia in about a fortnight's time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-29a.80.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "and if we cannot have a reply from the Parliamentary Secretary to-day I am going to suggest to my hon. and right hon. Friends on the Front Opposition Bench, that the position in the field of education is serious enough for us to have these Estimates brought up again for discussion. I have discovered that the short time at our disposal to-day is not sufficient to deal with such a serious situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY WILSON", "preceding_text": "re paid for by the taxpayer, and the field should be open, and there should be no favour. The opportunity should be open to all who fulfil the first two conditions, the test of educational qualifications and the test of means. Any boy or girl in any school in the country who has satisfied those two tests should be allowed a perfectly free and open chance of getting one of those State scholarships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Obviously!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": " I raised this matter when Lord Ritchie and his friends were in the Committee Room a few weeks ago, and I asked the River Superintendent of the Port of London whether he agreed that, if the length of the tunnel of the bridge were increased navigation would be more difficult, and he naturally said it would, though he qualified it by saying that the wider the tunnel the less the difficulty would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " the necessities of a modem city. We are bound to have regard to questions of comfort and convenience and to the possibility of (modern trade and modern commerce. But, if I may say so to the hon. Member with all respect, we are not faced with the alternative of destroying a beautiful piece of architecture or of preserving it. The chance of preserving it has already gone; it has itself fallen down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "preceding_text": "atter what this House decides to-night. Whatever point of view the House takes, the decision of those responsible for London administration has been made. For 10 years we have been reproached for our vacillating policy and all the rest of it, and have been urged by the leaders of the present London County Council to have the courage to put the cost on London rates and to defy the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "preceding_text": "determined. But of course, if this House is willing to give a percentage of the cost the county council is going to accept it gracefully, or I should say gratefully; and if this House does not do that, the decision to place it on the rates has already been taken by those responsible for London administration. I hope that the House will give the necessary 60 per cent. of the cost of the new bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should the rest of the country pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "preceding_text": " to give a percentage of the cost the county council is going to accept it gracefully, or I should say gratefully; and if this House does not do that, the decision to place it on the rates has already been taken by those responsible for London administration. I hope that the House will give the necessary 60 per cent. of the cost of the new bridge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I will state why, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander MARSDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander MARSDEN", "preceding_text": " before roads were invented. A great volume of traffic was carried up and down the river before a single bridge was put across the river, and yet one hon. Member suggested that, having put these impediments in the way of navigation, the navigation should pay for their removal, an argument with which I did not find myself in accord. Two years ago the case for the navigation side was not put at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "preceding_text": "bridge. A new bridge will cost more but, on the other hand, when you are considering the question of cost you have to consider at the same time how long the structure is going to last. It is well worth paying twice the amount if you are going to get three times the life. We have not heard a word to-night as to the period in which it is estimated that a reconstructed bridge would be likely to last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-30", "file": "debates1934-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9432490c4fe9c8ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "EX-NAVAL MEN (COLOMBIAN ENGAGEMENT).", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell)", "preceding_text": "The latest attempt of the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) is to hold this country up to international obloquy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-30a.325.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-31", "file": "debates1934-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ac160a9ef0eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-31a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIEU", "preceding_text": "I really will attempt to keep within your Ruling, Sir Dennis. The difficulty I am in is that I am asked to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-31a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-05-31", "file": "debates1934-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "9ac160a9ef0eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-31a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Surely it is clear to the Committee that within the next few minutes it will be quite impossible for me to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-05-31a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-04", "file": "debates1934-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2e2591fe781f614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. HOWITT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all workers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. HOWITT", "preceding_text": "ll be, secondly, the great difficulty of changing bad habits, for once the hospitals of this country have got used to Danish insulin it will be very difficult to get them to change to the insulin produced in this country. We have been told about the working man having to pay for insulin. Is that true? Does not the workman who is insured get his insulin free through the panel system of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-04", "file": "debates1934-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2e2591fe781f614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has failed to follow the point of my argument. The British manufacturer, we contend, can only produce the article as cheaply as the foreigner if he has a guaranteed market secured to him by the duty, and once the guaranteed market is removed, his price has to go up because he is not certain of his turnover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-04", "file": "debates1934-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2e2591fe781f614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "by the State, as apparently the Danes are producing it through some semi-State institution which does not run on a profit-earning basis, and which is, therefore, able to provide it at a cheaper rate. There is no need why, if people need it, they should not all have a cheap supply of it, but that cannot be done by trade interests; it can only be done under a proper system of Socialist distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-04a.646.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-05", "file": "debates1934-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "748400b083f646ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I challenged any Tory who had stood at the 1931 Election to state that in his election address he advocated this repeal. The hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Beaumont) admits that he did not put it in his election address but merely made statements in his speeches. A lot of speeches are made which are not recorded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-05", "file": "debates1934-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "748400b083f646ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "preceding_text": "st strenuous objection—was at the House of the right hon. Member for Darwen, and there were present that night the Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs and the then Solicitor-General. We then discussed how best we could meet the situation so as not to turn out the Government, although we were against double taxation. I will not go through all the ramificiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-05", "file": "debates1934-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "748400b083f646ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "k for the economic reconstruction of the country. If part of the economic or national structure is to be pulled down, let us have a reason. I shall expect the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell us that, instead of meandering philosophies like that of the right hon. Member for Hastings (Lord Percy), who, sitting there in his-high altitude, looking down on the rest of the House with contempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-05", "file": "debates1934-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "748400b083f646ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " should like to congratulate the Government upon the opportunity that has been presented to them of once again tackling this question of land values and assessment of site values. I should like to felicitate them upon the will they have shown in taking advantage of the opportunity offered.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th May, 1931; cols. 1815–16, Vol. 252.] He went on to make a few criticisms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-05a.884.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-07", "file": "debates1934-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d4a2fa27858edec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to draw the attention of the House to this accident—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—to point Out that it happened on a Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-07", "file": "debates1934-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d4a2fa27858edec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1084.5", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the question regarding the accident which happened in Viewpark Colliery, Uddingston; will the Prime Minister instruct the Secretary for Mines to issue instructions that Sunday work in mines be stopped except where necessary? I raised this question before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1084.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-07", "file": "debates1934-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d4a2fa27858edec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1215.7", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "MILK BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "preceding_text": "method which we propose to follow, is based upon a fallacy. Let me turn for a moment, in com mending the Second Reading of the Bill to the House, to the positive advantages that are gained by giving assistance to milk which is to be used for manufacturing purposes. The whole argument of those who oppose this Measure assumes that there is no use for milk except for consumption in liquid form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1215.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-07", "file": "debates1934-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d4a2fa27858edec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "hat is a great compliment to the right hon. Gentleman, but it is unfortunate for the public, because they have no chance of their interests being looked after. It is admitted in this report that it will be possible to brand every particular joint, and there are charts in the Order showing not merely the carcase but the various parts of the beast, in large letters and made as unsightly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-07a.1230.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1916.7", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "nts of public men as lies or by some other offensive epithet. We are told that what happened in Olympia is to be regarded as the normal method of procedure and that what happened there is likely to happen again. There has been no word of apology for what happened, no expression of regret for these numbers of people who are at present lying injured. I do not know whether they are Communists or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1916.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1919.0", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ed to fight against it, and the danger is that when this leader, given power, uses it as the first act to suppress the Communist movement, there are others who will come under his ban, and once suppression is started, no one knows where it will end. Take what he said at Olympia last week: It is in the Blackshirts' power to-day to stop any Socialist meeting in the country any night we might choose,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1919.2", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oliver Cromwell!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "t of all, that what has happened at Olympia is no isolated occurrence, but is a symptom of a return to violent ways of thinking. I believe, too, public apprehension has grown by the experience abroad. Private armies are a menace to liberty. If that has not been taught by what has happened in Europe, we are incapable of appreciating current history. Private armies are the bodyguard of dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "If the Noble Lord attaches importance to that I give him his point; but, whatever there may be in that intervention, he will admit that these parties are not out for supremacy over each other but out for supremacy in the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ces where I have been shouted down the whole time, and have been unable to get a word in at all—shouted down, not always by Communists, but sometimes by other strange sects. But we have all suffered. We of the Labour party suffer particularly in two ways. First of all, we have our own meetings broken up, and then we are charged by the other side with the misdeeds of people outside our ranks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "s really genuine in the matter. He preserves free speech just as long as it suits him. I debated with him not very long ago, and he talked about his plans. His plans were based on Continental methods. He used the Continental jargon. He said he was out now to win the battle of the streets. As a matter of fact he models himself on dictators, and his whole methods are utterly foreign to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1931.1", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "the man who is considered to be the chief instigator to keep the peace. I do not think Sir Oswald Mosley would suggest for a moment that anything in the movement is done without his orders. The whole point of the movement is that everyone must do what the great chief says. Therefore, he is fully responsible. Will the right hon. Gentleman take action and see that he is bound over to keep the peace?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " and the well-known charm of manner of Lord Beaverbrook did not save him from similar treatment at Camberwell. The situation that has arisen—and this is where it is new and serious—is that a number of people are getting tired of organised interruptions. One of the reasons why the Fascist movement is gaining recruits is, I am quite convinced, that people will not tolerate interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " come to my actual experiences at Olympia it is very important to say a word on a point which has been raised about the provocative nature of the Blackshirts, and the difference between provocative and non-provocative meetings. I do not believe that it is possible to hold a non-provocative meeting in this country, unless a man is either completely devoid of ideas or prefers to conceal those ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1949.3", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "was amazed at the latter part of the speech of the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. M. Beaumont). In giving his version of what happened in the hall, he said that in his opinion those who interrupted got all they asked for. That is a very serious statement for a Member of the House to make, because it is well known that the greater part of the stewards were armed with all kinds of dangerous weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1954.3", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good English method!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "something. It was not possible to tell what was called out unless you were near. The speech was immediately stopped. In the way I have described, the spotlights were reversed, and this young man was thrown to the ground by at least six people. Some four or five other people came down, and while he was securely held and unable to do anything they struck him with their fists as he was on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1980.4", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ain of in a speech of the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies). I would say to the hon. Gentleman—I still adhere to the old custom of calling those who sit opposite hon. Members—that I am sorry I had to raise a point of Order. I see now what his real views are. But I rather regret that in his speech he should have brought forward a suggestion of partiality against the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1980.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "g the House to express the opinion that no Member is entitled to bring accusations against the courts of law. I speak as an old Member of the House in asserting with the utmost emphasis that it has always been out of order to charge any court in this land with partiality. It has always been so. If an hon. Member wants to do that, he must put down a specific Motion on the Paper criticising a judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ned Gentleman. That is a most fair way of answering my question, and I accept the statement fully. It was probably my fault that I misunderstood what was said. But all the same, running through this Debate, there appears to be a suggestion on the part of some hon. Members that the Government ought to take powers to prohibit the preaching of the doctrines of Sir Oswald Mosley and of the Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1986.5", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "m—in regard to keeping order outside. My right hon. Friend skated over rather thin ice in regard to the Communist procession. He used a strange phrase, and I found myself in some doubt whether I was in agreement with him. He said that it had been escorted by the police. Is it desirable when you know that there is going to be one of the biggest meetings, in fact the biggest meeting ever held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.1986.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2014.3", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "ascists. That is an unwarranted statement. The facts of the matter are that when a policeman tells a Fascist to move on, he moves on, but when a policeman tells a Communist to move on, the policeman gets abuse and language which in itself would warrant the man's arrest. The Communists, and indeed the Labour party, too, teach their followers to regard the police as the enemies of the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2016.5", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "m going round the country now in support of the Black-shirts. It is a flame which I deplore, because I want to see this country governed by rational politicians. Maniacs, whether Sir Oswald Mosley or Harry Pollitt, have no sympathy from me, I trust neither of them; but I do admire the tens of thousands of young men who have joined the Blackshirt movement. They are the best element in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "es an army out of national funds. We are not going far enough. Hon. Members talk about interfering with the liberty of speech. How many madmen do we interfere with every year? Is Mosley sane? Has he the right to have the opportunity of going about? Judging by the standard of any member of this House, I ask is he sane? Even as regards some Members of this House there may be a doubt of their sanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "various constituencies, and have helped to organise opposition, and to prevent us from being heard. I am going further than that. What is the position of Members of the Labour party? I am quite blunt. I am entitled to ask that question. What about the Conservative working men? There are a few of us still, though some of us are supposed to be joining the Fascists. What about the Conservative miner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2030.0", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ly being held by their bitterest political opponents. I consider, if I may say so with great respect to the Home Secretary, that, if that allegation were true—the statement has been made and it has not yet been denied—it would have been unwise for the police, however orderly this counter-demonstration might be, to allow it at a hot political meeting, as a Fascist demonstration must be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-14", "file": "debates1934-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "56e76329a8537dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where do you get the numbers from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "think the movement will die of its own inertia when the novelty has worn off. There are others—I think I am of the number—who see in it something that has captured the imagination of the youth of both sexes and increased the number of its adherents from a few hundreds to about a quarter of a million in all parts of the country, and there must be some serious reason for its advancement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-14a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " a problem which has its roots right down in racial history, by clapping on a duty. Of course, no solution is to be found on those lines. The hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough said that the party to which I have the honour to belong would run away from this question, but I think he would find that if that party were in power, so far from running away from the question, they would settle it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " Of course, no solution is to be found on those lines. The hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough said that the party to which I have the honour to belong would run away from this question, but I think he would find that if that party were in power, so far from running away from the question, they would settle it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] They would settle the question to the honour of both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What condition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": ". They want to go back to the ancient times. If they wish, they can do exactly as they want to do in their own sphere, but for us at this stage to throw in our hands and say, \"Very well, do not pay us, but stay in the Empire\" would be a very foolish thing indeed. We shall have to face up to the situation at some time, and I, for one, hope that we shall not allow this condition of affairs to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "eciate the meaning of the passage. The particular sentence on which he laid special emphasis was one in which the Dominions Secretary said that those duties were imposed for the purpose of recouping the Exchequer for the loss laid upon them by the default of the Irish Free State, and that when that amount had been acquired or made up, the duties should cease. That was not the question I was asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.67.4", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must face the reality of the situation. The moment you raise wholesale prices, the raising of retail prices will follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.67.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.67.4", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "preceding_text": " will put this question to hon. Members and to the Minister in charge. If protective tariffs are now required because agricultural prices are at an abnormally low level, so much lower than the prices of industrial products, would they be prepared in the event of the protective tariffs improving the comparative level of agricultural prices, to withdraw the protective tariffs? It is a fair question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.67.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. STEWART", "preceding_text": "t trade, and the same appears to be true of the hon. Members who said \"Hear, hear\" during his speech. It amazes me that hon. Gentlemen should be so blinded by their Protectionist ideas as to wish to kill the already restricted export trade of this country. I will never be a party to a policy which seeks without good national reasons, still further to reduce the international trade of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "gained the free gift of £1,750,000 by being saved the cost of road making, and at the same time it was estimated, by a careful calculation, that these 70 miles of roadway had added some £13,500,000 to the value of the owners' property jutting on these new roads. Does it not seem reasonable that something should be done to value this land, so that the community should know how much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": " party has become paramount within the National Government, and that we are no longer faced with a National Government but with one that is determined to protect the landed interests? It is against that attitude that we raise our protest at this eleventh hour—and just after. After the reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer I feel that to go on any further is to waste the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-18", "file": "debates1934-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "14eec064ed7651b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "onsiderations of pure duty, and not by personal reasons. I am sure for personal reasons he would rather that the original proposition should remain on the Statute Book. There are two personal reasons why I am sure the Prime Minister would want to keep the original tax. First of all it is the one solitary constructive achievement of the Prime Minister's greatest friend, the late Lord Snowden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-18a.163.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-19", "file": "debates1934-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "090f76d0650b7758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-19a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I know that it is covered in the Bill, but the right hon. Gentleman made no reference to it in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-19a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-19", "file": "debates1934-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "090f76d0650b7758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-19a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "y, always having imagined that I was a Member of the Conservative party which had a considerable majority in this House, even though it was supporting a unified Government, but when I hear a Measure moved by the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade received with thunderous applause by the Socialist and the Liberal parties, and in solemn silence by the majority of his own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-19a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And his predecessors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "scale which does not yet appear to have appealed to the Minister of Health. If farmers are ruined this year, as many may be, if in the textile districts, which require water for their industrial processes, unemployment is increased, if the country is swept by epidemics because of the use of contaminated water supplies, all that long trail of misery must lie at the door of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "luctuations, has fallen. Instead of there being nearly 45,000 houses under construction, at the end of April this year there were, under local authorities' schemes of all kinds, 19,000 houses. Astonishing activity following the 1933 Act! Tremendous boom in the building of small houses! We will pursue the figures a little farther. I do not want to run away from the consequences of these statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ate enterprise and not sufficiently profitable, on to speculative builders. Let it be said that there has been a boom in the building of houses. Let it be said that private enterprise last year built more houses than it did the year before. The increase in the number of houses does not compensate for the number of local authorities' houses which would have been built but which have not been built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "clearance scheme suffered in consequence, and some of the nurses up and down the country became broken hearted. There are members of Conservative local autho- rities present in the Committee to-day, and they know that what I say is true, namely, that from the first day the National Government took office they deliberately discouraged local authorities from going on with any housing schemes at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. J. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal party supported it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. J. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ular interest in slum clearance as I happen to be a journalist connected with the building trade and have received protests from many parts of the country about the way the Act is being worked. I can understand the right hon. Gentleman passing a Measure such as that with the sanction of the party who supported him. It is purely a Socialist Act. It provides for the confiscation of private property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. J. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What kind of property is to be confiscated?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. J. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ntry about the way the Act is being worked. I can understand the right hon. Gentleman passing a Measure such as that with the sanction of the party who supported him. It is purely a Socialist Act. It provides for the confiscation of private property. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal party supported it.\"] I cannot help that; I was not here. I oppose it to-day and have a number of reasons for so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-20", "file": "debates1934-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "62e27e54b1902fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": ", members of the Labour party, who are great land owners. I remember one particularly in the north of England who owns a very large area of land, and I remember distinctly some years ago standing on a platform with him and singing \"God gave the land to the people.\" I suppose he would say: \"All except my bit.\" I have received a protest from the National Federation of Property Owners and Ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-20a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-21", "file": "debates1934-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f47c28bb7cc895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "mpared with any country in the world, including America, the social services which we provide in this country are greater than those of any other country. It is obvious that if you impose a statutory reduction of hours and maintain the same earnings, the country which pays the highest wage rates will be most affected and compared with other countries will be at a distinct competitive disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-21", "file": "debates1934-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f47c28bb7cc895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WARD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What evidence is there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WARD", "preceding_text": "ation. I will cite the mining industry. It is difficult to say how many of the men in the exporting district of the North-East coast will find employment in that industry again, although there are indications, on the North-East coast at any rate, that as a result of the trade agreements we are gradually absorbing in the mining industry men who have been out of employment for a considerable period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-21", "file": "debates1934-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f47c28bb7cc895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maiden speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I do not remember hearing the hon. Member for Merthyr (Mr. S. Davies) before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-21", "file": "debates1934-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f47c28bb7cc895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "These figures, of course, are only estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-21a.662.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-25", "file": "debates1934-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f73cb368fd643db1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.850.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBTS CLEARING OFFICES AND IMPORT RESTRICTIONS REPRISALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I know you can find all sorts of excuses and explanations, but when the Irish Free State declined to meet their liabilities a new situation was created, as I said in this House at the time. Do not let us quibble. The special punitive duties were imposed on the Irish Free State for the sake of collecting the money to pay the interest to the Irish land bondholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.850.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-25", "file": "debates1934-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f73cb368fd643db1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBTS CLEARING OFFICES AND IMPORT RESTRICTIONS REPRISALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "itical and economic things, yet the importance of collecting the interest on the Dawes and Young loans is so tremendously great that their principles again must be put into the background for the purpose of facilitating this Measure. I am not going on any further. As I said when I started, this is not my line of country. I am getting over the hurdles as best I can—dodging most of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-25", "file": "debates1934-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f73cb368fd643db1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" I do so in order to ascertain from the right hon. Gentleman how long he expects to go with this Measure. It is now after 11 o'clock, a time when hon. Members are more or less semi-prostrate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-25a.929.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than beer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "t, which is one of the best elements in our national and social life. This evil is ruinous to home life, and the worst part of its effects is the deterioration of character. I have read all I can of what has been said by those who have spoken of the effect of the gambling evil, and they all agree that this thing more than any other effects a deterioration of character by a sort of atrophy of mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "is thing more than any other effects a deterioration of character by a sort of atrophy of mind. [An HON. MEMBER: \"More than beer?\"] Certainly. I am speaking of the peculiarly evil effect that the gambling habit has on any individual. Once a man has become the victim of this habit, he loses his interest in everything else. He becomes no use to his trade union, or his political party, or his church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ks for only 104 days in the year they have instituted a very strong resriction. I am very glad they are not allowing a young man or a young woman to bet upon dog tracks. Is it suggested that we should allow infants to bet? Is it suggested that we should allow boys from school to go there and bet? Personally, I think it would be wise to exclude them from the tracks. There is no sport at dog tracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "erfere with individual liberty. What the Government do desire—such is the statement made on behalf of the Government—is to find a solution of the problem which would commend itself to the great mass of public opinion. That is the Government case. I believe that the overwhelming majority of Members of the House will agree that the Government have signally failed in securing that object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " profit making that they cannot see anything but their own aggrandisement. I was very proud to hear speeches from all sides of the House denouncing the conception that some hon. Members have about this business—that we must have dog racing and give it a statutory colouring and clothing, while all the time hon. Members know that a few Members of this House are making piles of money out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "preceding_text": " thought in his party on this subject. I must admit that I have not noticed complete unanimity in my own party, and I sympathise with him in his troubles. The hon. Member who spoke last asked me where the Bill would go after it passed its Second Reading, and the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. L. Smith) asked definitely that the Committee stage should not be taken on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-27", "file": "debates1934-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "47027186009f440b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "preceding_text": " taken on the Floor of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] The hon. Member made that request. He asked that the Committee stage should not be taken on the Floor of the House. Let me inform my hon. Friend that this Government acts very quickly, and his representations were met even before he made the request. The Bill will not be taken on the Floor of the House but will be taken upstairs in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-27a.1254.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-06-28", "file": "debates1934-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5cbbf03fcaa5bdc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not across the road.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Are there no footpaths?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-28", "file": "debates1934-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5cbbf03fcaa5bdc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "Quite so, and it is of course only a coincidence that if ever I do propose anything which has the effect of making more efficient the enforcement of those provisions which are already on the Statute Book it meets with immediate opposition from the hon. Lady and other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-06-28", "file": "debates1934-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5cbbf03fcaa5bdc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "The Minister in the course of his speech made a declaration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-06-28a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-02", "file": "debates1934-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b255457a3bae5770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": " property rights with a measure of control. I say once more there is no necessity for the extension of Government interference which is entailed by this complete expropriation. Another point which arises on this question of expropriation has been referred to in connection with coal. Some hon. Members take the view that it would have been far better if all minerals had remained vested in the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-02", "file": "debates1934-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b255457a3bae5770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "preceding_text": "d of Trade will permit me to say this, I was rather astonished at some of the things he said earlier in the Debate. He said that we did not want to scare investors away and that we wanted to encourage people to apply for licences, to bore holes, and to work for petroleum. He then went on to say that in his opinion private enterprise could always deal with commercial subjects better than the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-02", "file": "debates1934-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b255457a3bae5770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir EUGENE RAMSDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EUGENE RAMSDEN", "preceding_text": "I oppose the Amendment, and I hope the Minister will not accept such an unpractical suggestion. As one who has some knowledge of business, I realise that it is impossible for the State or anyone else to carry on any business of this kind if it is to be done in the open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-02", "file": "debates1934-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "b255457a3bae5770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " that in 1932, 91 tons of petroleum was produced in this country; in 1931, 87 tons; and in 1930, 60 tons. I am wondering where that has been produced. Will it mean that the Government will have to buy out the royalties or those who are producing this oil before this Bill can be put into force? Whatever the answer, we believe that this Clause gives us a chance of stating the position for Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-02a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-03", "file": "debates1934-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6743af11fe0bd259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether a means test is to be applied to the people who receive this public assistance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-03", "file": "debates1934-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6743af11fe0bd259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "preceding_text": "As this is the most important pronouncement by a Minister of the Crown on shipping since the repeal of the Navigation Acts 80 years ago, are we to understand from the President of the Board of Trade that the shipping industry will have a full opportunity of considering these proposals in detail before he introduces any legislative Measure to implement the policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-03", "file": "debates1934-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6743af11fe0bd259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the last week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "s? I throw out that suggestion, because up to now the League of Nations has been doing a great deal of work in collecting health statistics to show where each country stands in comparison with the others. It would be very interesting to find out the position of France and Germany in the realm of infantile mortality. Especially I would like to see the general mortality rates of Germany during 1934.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-03", "file": "debates1934-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6743af11fe0bd259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The \"News Letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am very glad the hon. Member referred to it as a bright little contemporary. I thought that I should draw out that statement. That is why I mentioned the \"News Bulletin.\" Is it the \"News Bulletin\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-03a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-04", "file": "debates1934-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f53411adbaa2da40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give them to America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "is to sell sterling. One might think that that was a comparatively easy thing to do, but the difficulty which then arises is to know what to buy in exchange. If you took £5 notes out into the ocean and sank them, it would have the effect of keeping sterling down, but the Treasury with innate honesty dislikes sinking banknotes. It likes to get something for them and the trouble is what to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-04", "file": "debates1934-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f53411adbaa2da40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2001.0", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": " success during the last 2½ years, to enable us to say definitely what we are doing and what we are going to do? I feel that the business community of this country would have even greater confidence than they have to-day, if they knew with some degree of definiteness what theory of money we are using to guide our policy. We do not know at the moment. We are satisfied with events as they pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-07-04", "file": "debates1934-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f53411adbaa2da40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "preceding_text": "Everyone knows that one of the principal planks on which I and many others who supported the National Government went to the country, and on which the Government were returned, was undoubtedly the maintenance of the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-04", "file": "debates1934-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f53411adbaa2da40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2012.6", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is capitalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": "rea in which it is naughty to fly at much more than 100 miles an hour. Imperial Airways have quite frankly told us that it is sitting in a very comfortable position on its subsidy and on its receipts and that it sees no reason why it should undertake any further national or Imperial development to the detriment of its shareholders unless this House pays it for such extra services as it may render.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-04a.2012.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2045.5", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "We really must have an answer to this question, because I have the case of a man in Durham who is only receiving 9d., and there is another case at Newcastle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2045.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2073.2", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "By the Free State.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Treaty has not been carried out by this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are leader of a party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I am really anxious to get something done in this matter. I do not know whether it affects any other Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2075.0", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "May I supplement the point made by the hon. Member for Bridgeton by saying that I think it can be accepted that there has been no undue prolongation of Debate in that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": ". We are not going to be trailed at the heels of England. This is a Scottish Measure, and we ought to get what we can prove is compatible with what is right and just for Scotland irrespective of England. We have nothing to do with England. We are a distinct race, We have a distinct code of laws. We have our own Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General and the Secretary of State is a Cabinet in himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-05", "file": "debates1934-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f72ecc340e838220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2125.3", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "ial care has to be taken if I am right in thinking that a special need arises from the birth of a child. If I am right in that, on general principles of the Poor Law the local authority ought to disregard the 40s., and if, on top of that, we put in a special provision telling them to do so, does that not perhaps involve their giving an extra 40s.? If you are going to wipe out all the income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-05a.2125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-06", "file": "debates1934-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "7187103de392985f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-06a.2242.1", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are getting them in this Bill\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " during the past fortnight learned some lessons from the opposite side of the House. I came here to fight for Socialism, and the attitude that has been taken up by hon. Members opposite on this Bill has inspired me with a determination to put forward every effort in the future to try and get the principles of Socialism adopted in this House. I do not expect to get them under the present conditions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-06a.2242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-07-10", "file": "debates1934-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ec33cc6f08ae8202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Is this a private conversation?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-10", "file": "debates1934-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ec33cc6f08ae8202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ndustries. The total number of insured persons in the Mercantile Marine, was, on the 1st July of last year, 155,660, or about 150,000, and I have a list here of comparative figures in other trades, from which it will be found that 150,000 employed in a whole trade is a relatively low number. I make no point about that, because it is a national service and is not regarded as an ordinary employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-10", "file": "debates1934-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ec33cc6f08ae8202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The appeal that was made on lath December was on very much the same lines as the statements that have been made to-day, and the reply of the President of the Board of Trade was entirely different from the statement that he has made to-day. We then had facts and figures from various chambers of shipping and centres of shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-10a.299.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "le. When it comes to the welfare of a few thousand young persons, they want two and a-half years in which to act. If they want to subsidise tramp shipping, an hour will do, and they can give £3,000,000 to the beef industry in five minutes. That is the attitude of mind of the Government—young people last, beasts of burden, farmers, shipbuilders, employers and financiers first every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " this very reactionary new provision, to allow the employment of young persons, 16 and 17 years of age, in the delivery and collection of newspapers as from 5 o'clock in the morning. The hon. Lady to whom I refer is the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent (Mrs. Copeland). I was astonished, too, that the hon. Member for Stourbridge (Mr. Morgan) being an educationist voted in favour of the new provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ngs.\" Surely there are older people who would like to earn a few shillings. I am very sorry that the new provision was inserted in the Bill in Committee. I have never understood that it would be impossible for our civilisation to proceed without newspapers. I am not so sure whether our civilisation would not be of a higher quality if it were not for daily newspapers, especially some of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "e year, they can take it whenever they like, but with this further proviso, that they cannot take more than eight hours overtime per fortnight. That is a very great advantage, because if you take eight hours in a normal fortnight, it means obviously 48, plus 8, equals 56 as the most that can be worked in the first week, and there cannot be any further overtime in the second week of that fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "men every year. The values of its products are very great. The products which it turns out are enjoyed, not by millionaires, as the Cunarder will be, for no working man will ever set foot in that ship save as a, servant to those who ride in it. The Cunarder is not going to be of anything like the same service to the community of this country as a whole as the industry which we are now considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-11", "file": "debates1934-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4000a310b1c4543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 AND 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which you opposed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "Although it is very late, as my name has been referred to and the Hops Board of which I am a member has been criticised, I ought very shortly to reply at any rate to the more important points which have been made to-night. I am depressed that this scheme has evoked so much wrath from the Liberal party. In a moment of light they supported the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-12", "file": "debates1934-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "03869e48187f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-12a.547.11", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not show a sample?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": ", to whom the existence or non-existence of a market makes an enormous difference. Those islands have got together and agreed upon what I may call a cartel scheme to limit the amount to be put on the market. Associated with them are enterprising firms in the textile trades here who are using this material. I wear it. It is most excellent; I commend it to everybody. It is cool, cheap and silk-like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-12a.547.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-12", "file": "debates1934-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "03869e48187f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-12a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I too have had a long day here. I heard the hon. and gallant Member for South-East Leeds (Major Milner) complaining somewhat bitterly that there were very few Members supporting the Government in the House when he began his speech. I took the trouble to count them, and I found that there were 25 per cent, more supporters of the Government than there were of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-12a.658.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-13", "file": "debates1934-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "521dc9cce25027d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-13a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " I think that the whole of the movement towards dictatorships in Europe has reached its highest point and that there is a decline in the movement towards dictatorships owing to the failure of the dictators. I think that Hitler and his movement is the last move in the suggestion that somehow or other you can secure the world by getting some wonderful individual who is going to set everything right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-13a.687.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-16", "file": "debates1934-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "11c5a79583f183ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"94.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. and gallant Gentleman is not aware of the fact that while livestock prices today have fallen from 122 to 104—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-16", "file": "debates1934-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "11c5a79583f183ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "n this country is about 65 per cent. above pre-War level. If any hon. Member challenges that statement, he had better work it out with the officials of the Ministry of Labour who prepared the Ministry of Labour Gazette in which those figures are worked out. I do not think that anybody could challenge the general idea that the wage level is from 60 per cent. to 70 per cent. above the pre-War level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-16", "file": "debates1934-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "11c5a79583f183ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "on it in the worst possible way because we are beginning with a subsidy. The subsidy is to be recovered subsequently by a tariff. I recognise that the levy is a tariff. I am not ashamed of a tariff, I am in favour of it, and I hope that the time will come when it will be all tariff and no subsidy. Then, nearly all the argument brought against the policy by hon. Members opposite will have vanished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-16", "file": "debates1934-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "11c5a79583f183ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "f our countryside? I congratulate the Minister of Agriculture, because he and his colleagues have had to eat a certain amount of dirt, to put it bluntly, in order to rectify the mistakes of the past. There have been mistakes of policy and they have admitted the error. They have come to the House and admitted their error and by so doing they have merited a considerable degree of admiration from us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-16", "file": "debates1934-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "11c5a79583f183ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL STOCK BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " arbitration in the future the better. We are anxious that it should be made use of in the present, not always in the future. It is apt to be like to-morrow, which never comes. The hon. Gentleman continued: And it is an ideal of His Majesty's Government that we may reach the time when all disputes are submitted to arbitration. Again something in the dim and distant future, where it always remains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-16a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-17", "file": "debates1934-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "290d88d6be773aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-17a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ugh during successive years since the great slump began in 1930. Again, I say that I do not quote these figures with any degree of complacency, but as a measure of thankfulness. The distribution, of course, varies according to districts. Some benefit more than others, but in the result all have their share. The largest share for the first half of 1934 was Durham, the increase being 1,860,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-17a.955.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1281.12", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "uthorised officers at approved centres, and a certificate that an animal qualifies for payment will be given by a responsible authority. The certifying authority will take the responsibility for accurate recording of weight and, of course, for the marking, and we shall use every endeavour to work through the existing channels and introduce as little disturbance as possible into existing practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1281.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "apparently, according to the Bill, every time a producer sells an animal which is not for slaughter, however short may have been the time since he bought it, it can, if it be home-grown, qualify for the subsidy. If a farmer sells some cattle to-day, he draws the subsidy. The next farmer who sells them is also entitled to the subsidy. If they are resold next day, they again qualify for the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Ministers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "ects of that policy, Imperial, domestic and foreign, have been co-ordinated. In this matter each Department has been pursuing its own policy and has followed its own ideas. With a Cabinet, inevitably pre-occupied with the overwhelming mass of work which confronts it from week to week, first one Minister and then another Minister has got his way. The result is that the public interest has suffered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1329.4", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "g which we hear from the Front Bench in every Debate nowadays. Hon. Gentlemen opposite point to the improvement in the unemployment figures. They know very well the cause of that improvement. It is not any success on the part of the Government. It is the Government's outstanding and splendid failure—their failure to keep this country on the Gold Standard. There we have the major explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I have been wondering who is to reply on behalf of the promoters of the Bill. There ought to be somebody to speak for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "as the 2,000,000 unemployed workers who are on it and who are put upon a very severe grid? I am speaking of something that I know, and not of something that I have read in a book. I have served upon public assistance committees since November, 1931. If the farmers were subjected to the scrutiny which the unemployed get when going on to transitional payments, not many farmers would get the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And no means test\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "end it to the House to-night.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 1st March, 1932; col. 1078, Vol. 262.] Those are the words in which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Caithness and Sutherland, in the name of his party, commended a levy proposal. That was the wheat quota. There was no differentiation between one farmer and another, no differentiation in favour of one household as against another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-19", "file": "debates1934-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7f2e741f251eca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is part of the remedy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "We all know, of course, the remedy of my hon. Friend: it is a return to the Gold Standard, and then all these things would immediately fade away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-19a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-20", "file": "debates1934-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccaddaae44725d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-20a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I am sorry I was not here for the earlier part of the Debate, but I understand we are discussing the herring trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-20a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-07-20", "file": "debates1934-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccaddaae44725d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-20a.1436.4", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "If it be the desire of the Committee that the Debate should be concluded, I will move that the Motion be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-20a.1436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-23", "file": "debates1934-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "cafc8ae9b88efa61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is discussing points which arise under Subsections (2) and (3). These are mere matters of accounting. The money is to be repaid if the country decides to put on a levy. If the country does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-07-23", "file": "debates1934-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "cafc8ae9b88efa61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1575.4", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "In view of the assurance given by the Under-Secretary of State, and notwithstanding the very kind offer of hon. Members of the Labour party, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-23", "file": "debates1934-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "cafc8ae9b88efa61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Running!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I should hate to misrepresent the right hon. Gentleman, but that was my interpretation of what he said: That it is far better to have a body of officials—very efficient ones—distributing this relief than to have a body of officials guiding the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-23", "file": "debates1934-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "cafc8ae9b88efa61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " scheme in advance. Is it to be done by counties or through London? If it is to be done through London, does it mean the establishment of a central machine through which all the money is to go, like the Milk Board? I prefer localisation. All these central boards are playing into the hands of hon. Members above the Gangway. The Prime Minister invented the phrase, \"the inevitability of gradualness.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-23a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-24", "file": "debates1934-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "137f1f8042738d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENC PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are never happy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " in the price of farm products and the loss of purchasing power to the farmers has been largely responsible for the general depression, but it is not generally recognised that the failure of other prices to decline in company with the prices of farm products has been the principal cause of unemployment. That is the real trouble. If we could go back to pre-war, the farmers would be perfectly happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-24", "file": "debates1934-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "137f1f8042738d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENC PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " to make further efforts. In this country we have an enormous debt burden. Could we go back to pre-war days in regard to debts, pay, Army and Navy pensions, and so on things would be different but it could not be done. We have to deal with the disequilibrium in agriculture, com- pared with other industries. This is purely a temporary Measure. My right hon. Friend proposes to have long-term policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-24", "file": "debates1934-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "137f1f8042738d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENC PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I have not at my disposal all the volumes of Labour policy produced for the election of 1929, but if the hon. Member will read them through—I do not know that he ever did so, for he may have helped to compile them—he will see the pledges made at the dictation of the Trades Union Congress. But I want to turn from that argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-24a.1689.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-25", "file": "debates1934-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9afeaa5ceb885957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Sunderland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "country. If they are to be reorganised on lines which have proved through the years to be mistaken, the policy will be a complete failure. However, I would say to the Minister that it is very encouraging to find distinct indications of better times in the heavy industries. No one can deny that conditions are better in the iron and steel industry and that unemployment has decreased very materially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-25", "file": "debates1934-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9afeaa5ceb885957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1884.5", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "owering of the standard which has been won in this country as the result of the years of work, not least by the trade unions. When the hon. Member for Wednesbury accuses us of taking the side of the employer against the workman, I do not think he realises what happened. What happened was that we defended the interest of the British working man against the misguided advice of many of their leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-25", "file": "debates1934-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9afeaa5ceb885957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1884.5", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Population?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " of the surplus population of areas had gradually drifted away and found work in other and more prosperous parts of the country. So much so was this the case that, to take South Wales as an example, that area in 10 years lost 242,000 persons by migration. Scotland lost 200,000, Lancashire lost 130,000, and Durham and Tyneside had lost the amazing figure of 123,000 in the four years preceding 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-25a.1884.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-26", "file": "debates1934-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "ce5ff19569af1cf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-26a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ws about the Clause as a whole, but the consideration I have in mind is this. To pass a law that is going to be disobeyed is a bad thing, because it brings the law into disrepute. I was driving through a Royal Park to-night, where there was an indication \"Twenty miles an hour speed limit.\" The vehicle in which I was driving, and every other vehicle, was going at approximately thirty miles an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-26a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2329.1", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "world signs of a form of force being used which shows a spirit which, if it became powerful enough, might mean the end of all that we in this country value and which we believe makes our life worth living. Let us never forget this; since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defence of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": ". There is no secret about it. She has great interests in the Far East and the Pacific. Her communications from her metropolis to that distant province are extremely difficult. There is a formidable possible competitor in the Pacific, in Japan, and Russia has been immensely increasing her Air Force in the Far East in order to deter any possible act of aggression on the part of her neighbour there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I gather from statements made in the public Press that this is not only a Vote of Censure but the first Vote of Censure which we have been favoured with during the lifetime of the present House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2367.2", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "itions—presenting themselves on the ground that they will not support the necessary defence of the country and that they intend to utilise all the prejudice and unpopularity which they suppose may be brought against a Government which has to propose an increase of armaments. I believe if they do that they will only be making another of those historic miscalculations upon large issues —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2367.2", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tood abroad. They were stated publicly and they bred no ill-will and caused no offence. As a matter of fact, the contrary was the case, and I think I shall be borne out in that statement by those who remember what happened in those days. As the preponderance of our Navy grew stronger our relations with Germany steadily improved and they were never better than in the last few months before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2408.1", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "preceding_text": "n! Frankly, I have been quite bewildered by the position of my leader, the Lord President of the Council, in all this controversy. On Friday, 13th July, I said, when contrasting his tacit acceptance of some of the brave words of his colleagues with his own weighty pronouncements on this matter, that he seemed to have been actuated by the Latin principle: \"Video meliora proboque. Detersora sequor.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2413.1", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir REGINALD BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir REGINALD BANKS", "preceding_text": "te case is established; and these conditions not being present as regards the proposed additional expenditure of £20,000,000 upon air armaments the House declines its assent.\"— and which chimes in very well with the speech to which we have just listened. The hon. Members who put down that Motion state that in their view a competitive race in armaments has always been a precursor of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ct give us any greater security than if we persist in our attempts at disarmament. We deny, as we always have denied, the proposition that the strong man armed is most likely to create peace in the world, and the curious thing is that although we always think that of our own country we all of us rigidly deny it as regards any other country. If France has big armaments she is a menace to the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " as we always have denied, the proposition that the strong man armed is most likely to create peace in the world, and the curious thing is that although we always think that of our own country we all of us rigidly deny it as regards any other country. If France has big armaments she is a menace to the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"] If France has big armaments she is a menace to the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " big armaments she is a menace to the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"] If France has big armaments she is a menace to the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] One of the difficulties always pointed out was the unwillingness of France to reduce her armaments, and that very argument proves the fact that we do not regard large armaments in France as necessarily increasing the security of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ven up faith in the Disarmament Conference. They have, indeed, best demonstrated by their own acts that they have a profound disbelief in the system of pooled security. The way in which they acted in the Japanese incident proves that quite conclusively. Do hon. and right hon. Gentlemen believe that it was right to leave China to the tender mercies of Japan when there was a covenant to protect her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "n relying on anyone else. The right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I am glad to see, confirms my analysis of what the Government believe. The Government—we now have it officially, we have it from a Member of the Cabinet—do not believe in relying on anyone else, and, therefore, we wipe out of consideration all possible allies or all possible collective security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-07-30", "file": "debates1934-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "d73e07aba6ffa62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2432.1", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is in the Covenant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "undertaking which we certainly have given, the last people who ought to raise criticism on this score should be the hon. Gentlemen opposite, who never tire of telling us that in their view it should be part of the function of this country to lend its aid, and, if necessary, its armed aid, under the direction of the League of Nations in connection with troubles in any part of the globe, new or old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-07-30a.2432.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Have you made any?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "No overtures so far as I am aware have been made by the Irish Free State Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.9.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HERRING FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the strong feeling among the fishermen in the ports of Yarmouth and Lowestoft to the effect that financial assistance should be forthcoming from the Department—a very widely expressed opinion that the Department have failed to give the help that is urgently required? Ruin stares them in the face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ision of the Government regarding the time for this Bill was made before the Recess there was no indication at all of any objection being taken. It was recognised that, though the Bill was quite an important one, so many changes by way of meeting opposition objections had been made in Committee that it was a very reasonable thing to ask the House when we came back to let it go through in two days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It works because people are willing to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.63.5", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about serving on a jury?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "They have to be present and sign a list drawn up by the person making the search, and I should think that that would be a very repugnant duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.63.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the English people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": " of the House. We shall try to meet the various Amendments with argument and reason, and if we cannot be so happy as to convince hon. Members opposite, it will be our misfortune. We think that we have very good reasons and we shall advance them, I hope, without any heat. The hon. Member has said that the objection to the search warrant Clause is in the very bone and blood of himself and his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "when I say that, in the first place, the offender will be tried by an ordinary criminal judge, and then may have an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal. Quite frankly, the judges at the moment are, in the main, drawn from politicians. [Hog. _MEMERS: \"No!\"] Well, a large number of them are—[Hog. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and all of them, the overwhelming mass of them, have dabbled in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e law is being used. The Attorney-General has said all along that he has no intention of using the Bill with any degree of oppression against anyone. That is all right to those who do not know the Attorney-General, but not to those who know him. I do not say this harshly, but I think that in political matters he is cruel. I do not know a more cruel force in this House in political matters than he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "lause than that. The hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) has entirely omitted to point out that the public control which he desires is already available in the shape of a jury. I am speaking subject to correction, but I am practically sure that cases under the Bill will without exception be tried before a jury, or before the accused's peers. We are familiar with the methods of selecting a jury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e up my mind yet whether he or some other Member of the Government was responsible for shoving this Measure before the House of Commons. It starts a new era in our political life. It starts an era in which we no longer believe in democracy. We do not believe now that people with different political ideas from ours should be allowed to express them; we believe that they should be shut up in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Campbell case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "overnment; some hon. Gentlemen have been exceedingly courteous in saying that they have no fears of my right hon. and learned Friend or myself—that some alternative Government might introduce political prejudice into the administration of this question. That political prejudice might be introduced either in sanctioning a prosecution or in refusing to consent to prosecution in the proper way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Lunacy Commission!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " of his candidature or not? Suppose that an agent or a worker or a canvasser acting on behalf of a condidate goes up to the barrack gates and says to a number of soldiers: \"You are not bound to obey, and, if you take my advice, you will not obey, your superior officers.\" Is that to be regarded as a speech made in pursuance of the candidature of the candidate or not? Who is to settle this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILM0T", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is on the Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILM0T", "preceding_text": "The case that the Attorney-General has so eloquently and successfully demolished is not a case which anyone on this side of the House has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Let us see where that leads? If freedom of conscience is to be given to a man to say that, is the same freedom of conscience to be given to a man who, in an industrial dispute, seeing the soldiers in the street under orders not to shoot until they are told, tells them to \"Shoot and never mind the consequences?\" If you are going to have freedom of conscience allowing individuals to interfere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.147.7", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"With intent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I do not think the learned Attorney-General has done his case any good by his parallel. He has mis-stated the position. In the first place, the mere possession of these docu- merits would be an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman has said that if I distributed these leaflets among my constituents and if they could get into the possession of soldiers, sailors or airmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Now we have it quite clearly from the right hon. and learned Gentleman that it is at present illegal in Great Britain to call upon soldiers to be Christians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Third International.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "subsidising and fomenting mutiny in this country at the same time. The two things are utterly inconsistent. It may be some other country which the Attorney-General has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "o be a tremendous confession of weakness on the part of a very powerful Government, at least as far as numerical strength is concerned, to announce to the country that it cannot put through its business inside the reasonable normal working Parliamentary hours. This House to-day has done an ordinary Parliamentary day's work. There has been no obstruction, and there has been no obstructive speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t this Measure. The ordinary powers which reside in Parliamentary procedure are sufficient to get them this Measure in a reasonable time, although the wisest plan for them would be to drop the proceedings on it altogether. The Attorney-General has repeatedly said, and he has stated it tonight, that the Government have all the powers necessary to do the things that he is asking for in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-30", "file": "debates1934-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a52f961fae848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "hought that it was wrong and that it ought not to be fought. Among those people was the present Prime Minister. I understand that the Prime Minister said that the war should not have been fought. If he spoke to a soldier and said in ordinary conversation, \"I think this war is wrong,\" then under this Bill he would immediately be open to the charge of seducing that soldier from loyalty to the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-30a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The quarter-deck!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ders and thereby prevent them from maintaining order. If that were to come into effect, there would be no more liberty in this country. We have heard a great deal in this Debate about the liberty of the subject, but if the men of the Navy, Army and Air Force are to be subject to seduction from their duty without that being an offence, then there will be no more liberty for anybody in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "f necessary by the armed forces, whatever civil disturbance there may be, or whatever the cause of that civil disturbance may be. Very often that is not so in foreign countries. The cause of unrest and trouble in foreign countries frequently in history has been due to the fact that men, either civilians or soldiers, have got hold of the army and used it for their own particular political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.220.7", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "ntain the discipline of the Forces, and to pretend that, if this alteration of a word in this Clause were made, the entire discipline of the Forces would collapse, is just nonsense. The Clause leaves quite indefinite the kind of offence that will call down these penalties. This Bill in its whole conception has a political flavour. It seeks to prevent the spread of certain kinds of political ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.220.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D I XEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D I XEY", "preceding_text": " I oppose, but I can understand it. But I cannot understand why Members be longing to a great party should come to this House and move an Amendment of this nature. I do not wonder that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), who came to the House during the discussion on the Amendment, did not stay very long to listen to Members of his distinguished ex-party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "promoted. When we come to the question of duty, obviously, the Bill is not intended to deal with the point raised as to a man extending his leave because of the attractiveness of his mistress or his wife. As I understand it, the Attorney-General or the Government expect that in the near future His Majesty's Forces will come into conflict with the civilian population. That seems to be the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.230.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " troops were being asked to do something which they ought not to do. I myself published in the \"Daily Herald\" the whole of his correspondence with the Government of the day. He just went on with his decision. I undertake to say that if the men had done that they would have been shot. Therefore, I ask the House to remember, in connection with this matter, that an officer can 'resign his commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.252.6", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " Attorney-General once more than Lieut.-Colonel Sherwood Kelly threw up his commission, and not only did he do that but came to this country and took part in public agitation against the Government of the day, and he was not court-martialled, though I am certain that if any private soldier had done that he would have been court-martialled, and, as it was in face of the enemy, would have been shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.252.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.252.6", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nt of the day that a private soldier is, it makes our case infinitely stronger. I always understood that an officer led his men, and I should think that he led them in loyalty to the Constitution of the country which they are enlisted to serve. But the point is that in the case of labour disputes, no one can deny that, whenever the Government interfere, they interfere on the side of the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.252.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "preceding_text": "red just now regard as the core of corruption and the centre of putrefaction. It is quite true to say that this is the heart of the Bill and that if this Clause goes the whole Bill collapses. But it is indeed less objectionable than it was in its original form. My hon. Friends will recall that as it was originally drafted any citizen in possession of a Bible might be held to be open to prosecution", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-10-31", "file": "debates1934-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "83fe21c0898d49a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "d take you to another jurisdiction.\" I am only saying this because it is the feeling of a good many of my hon. Friends that that is the real reason behind this Clause, and not the reason so speciously put forward by the Attorney-General. What is really behind the view of the Government is that they are quite willing to trust the magistrates as long as they are of their own particular colour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-10-31a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-01", "file": "debates1934-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "964b6d64d1407077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I want to back up all that the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Isaac Foot) has said. The Socialist opposition is really trying to kill the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-01", "file": "debates1934-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "964b6d64d1407077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d procedure of Parliament in regard to a matter of this kind. As I understand it, when a Bill gets its Second Reading in the House, it is usually sent to a Committee and is amended if necessary and then comes back to the House for further consideration. The whole procedure is being altered in this case. The first Clause of this Bill was considered in Committee. Is it going to be considered afresh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-01", "file": "debates1934-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "964b6d64d1407077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ontinuing. On this occasion also we shall determine whether we go into the Division Lobby or not by the reply which we receive from the Under-Secretary. The last reply which we received from him satisfied us to the extent of about 73 per cent. which I thought rather an extraordinary achievement on his part and if he does equally well in this case probably we shall not take our army into the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-01", "file": "debates1934-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "964b6d64d1407077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DINDINGS AGREEMENT (APPROVAL) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "e the Government were under the impression that the people of India and Egypt desired it. We must be very particular about this portion of the Empire as to whether the residents there require this change to be made. The Debate has raised a number of anomalies. We find great Imperialists among hon. Members opposite; a great desire to retain the integrity of the Empire. That has not happened before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-01a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": " to take all books and papers. I am not sure that it did not go further and enjoin them to take them. That is why it is referred to as a general search warrant. The warrant in this Bill, which follows the line of the warrants in the many other Statutes, gives authority only to take documents which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting to be evidence of the commission of such an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A particular document.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ecedented power. That is wholly untrue. So far from being anything unprecedented, it would be very much more true to say that a study of our Statute law shows that in most if not in all cases where either some object or some document is, from its nature, the instrument of a crime, the power to issue a search warrant has been conferred on the authorities by successive Statutes passed by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ten to the propaganda and to anybody who has anything to say. His wife and he go to the poll and are equal on that day and at that moment with the commanding officer and the wife of the commanding officer. They are a part of the British democracy, and, therefore, a Quaker or others with a peace policy, or a Socialist or a Communist, a Liberal, a Tory or a Tolstoyan, have a right, we contend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ppen. First of all, Lord Carson and his friends got their way. In the midst of a war they put a pistol to the head of the Gov- ernment, and compelled this House to hold up a piece of legislation which had been passed in a constitutional manner, and did not allow the King's writ to run in Northern Ireland; and they caused all the difficulties which this country has since had to confront in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s doing the things to which I have referred, the suffragettes were doing some illegal things, and I made an illegal speech and was sent to prison. I probably deserved it. While Tom Mann and a Tolstoyan workman, somewhere out in Hampshire, were printing leaflets which said: \"Don't shoot in a strike,\" Lord Carson was inviting people to get ready to destroy the Constitution, and he was allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption,.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but I think a man who wished to incite the troops could do it by a certain preparation of Biblical passages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Author!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "e are told of the great influence exercised by friends of his upon what would otherwise be a Tory Government. Is this a product of that individual contribution? We want to know where he is. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb, Silent they are though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and strive no more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I say the whole thing encourages the conception of sinister and black schemes and plots on my part, whereas the hon. Member has the lofty aspiration to keep within the Empire. These men who were being turned out of the Empire—their views are all ideals. Mine are all black and ugly and sinister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ny literature or documents whose distribution could be interpreted as an attempt to seduce any member of His Majesty's Forces from his duty or allegiance. As has been so often said, the possession of any pacifist literature from the articles of Tolstoy to the current publication of the Society of Friends might land a man in jail under this provision. I say to the House that that is grossly untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To which hon. Members are you referring?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "id, abet, counsel or procure the commission of an offence under Section one of this Act. Hon. Members will persist in anticipating the most gross miscarriages of justice. I wonder what would have been said in this House and outside if we had now been enacting that loitering with intent to commit a felony was a crime. Hon. Members have been accustomed to loitering without intent to commit a felony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": " quoted this morning. I referred to it because of what had been said by the Solicitor-General in the course of his speech, and I was speaking then from memory, because he said that the opinion of Quakers upon war could not in any event lead to any proceedings under this Bill. It was in answer to that argument that I quoted from memory. I would now like to put this question to the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-02", "file": "debates1934-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "327f3d45cbb9f091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCITEMENT TO DISAFFECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ite 'shakes his head. It is riot the part of the Government at one time of day to pass judgment upon events with which other Governments were under the duty of dealing. Nothing will persuade me to admit for a moment that anything in the nature of illegal drilling or that sort of thing would be tolerated in this country. Whether what took place in Northern Ireland was illegal drilling or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-02a.601.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YOUTHS' CONVICTION, BLAENAU FESTINIOG.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "preceding_text": "Was my right hon. Friend aware, when he made that decision, that these two boys had had no previous conviction whatever, and that the justices have shown by a subsequent public statement that they did not apply their judicial minds either to the question of applying the provisions of the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the winnings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": " to racecourses and spend their £5 or £50 or 2100, very well, that is their concern, but these contributions come for the most part from young people, apprentices and the like, to whom the difference of A few pence in the week means a difference in the home. The money spent in this way is largely taken out of the money which ought to go to the mother for the maintenance of the household.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "of account money order business, savings bank business, telephones, etc.—just the postal traffic in letters, post cards and parcels. Going back to last year, when the situation was not being disturbed in any way by the prospect of this Bill, I find that in May, when the pools would have come to an end, business was £1,800 a day more than in April, when the pools would have been running.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED BUTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED BUTT", "preceding_text": " those who are least able to look after themselves. I urge the Home Secretary to follow the suggestion made by the hon. Baronet the Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto), and to remove from the Government the odium which must follow if they do not legislate to deal with football coupons. I appeal to him to allow the House a free vote. I am convinced if he did so that the vote on this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "I hope the Home Secretary will consider this Amendment still further before Report. I quite understand that there are restrictions im- posed, but I do not follow why this further restriction cannot be put on the owners of tracks. We start with this, that there is no sport as such upon the dog track. If it were simply a question of the sport, no one would go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or he is leader of the local Labour party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "joint committees, who are in no way influenced by local elections. If the local authorities do delegate their functions to the standing joint committees, I think that would be a better arrangement than allowing the matter to be dealt with by the justices. I am not aware that a man becomes a member of a standing joint committee because his wife has been able to give a large donation to party funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at night\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Let us stick to my case for the moment. I was asking what was the difference in principle. Suppose someone opened a football ground near the property. The football ground would be largely attended, and people who attend football grounds make a good deal of noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"When the children are in bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ay as a football ground, Lord's Cricket Ground, or the Oval. I do not understand what is meant. The paragraph contains a phrase detrimental to the interests of persons receiving instruction, or residing, in any school or institution in that neighbourhood. I do not know whether on these tracks they race all day long but so far as I am aware they only race in the evening when the schools are closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Bristol?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "agraph. The hon. Member for Westhoughton did not say a single word on this paragraph that would not have been in order on the next. Why are these words brought in? I suggest that it is in order to create a general and vague atmosphere of prejudice, and that they do not mean anything. They are in the same category as a large number of resolutions passed at the annual conference of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not at the Labour Party Conference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "dice, and that they do not mean anything. They are in the same category as a large number of resolutions passed at the annual conference of the Labour party. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Bristol?\"] An hon. Gentleman refers to the Conservative conference. I was not at that conference, and I have never given notice of any resolutions at a Conservative conference, because I am not too much impressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.765.6", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "to me that the words \"involving fraud or dishonesty\" are very definite and specific and rarely apply to the minor offences referred to. It seems to me that if a licence is to be granted to a certain body of people for the purpose of organising gambling for their own private gain, we ought at least to be sure that they are reasonably honest people and have not been convicted of fraud or dishonesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.765.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "cedure he is now suggesting and that in relation to licensed premises. For the latter a man may go to considerable expense in anticipation of getting a licence. He applies then for his licence at the licensing sessions, and although he has a, very strong case, as he thinks, and may have incurred substantial expense, he can have his application refused, and if the refusal is made, that finishes it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-05", "file": "debates1934-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2e25292987fad7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "unsel the law. If I apply for a licence in the first instance, having put up my premises and incurred, it may be, substantial expenditure in anticipation of the application, I go then to the licensing justices. Any member of the public can appear and oppose, without giving me any notice whatsoever, and if upon my application being heard the licensing bench refuses my application, I have no remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-05a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HERRING FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the industry represented at the conference to which my right hon. Friend has referred was unanimous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.814.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "It may have been that I only heard it 14 times and not 15, but the hon. and gallant Member will also recollect that Clause 1 dealt with the number of days and that almost the whole of the Debate on that Clause centred around the question of whether the number of days should be limited to 104 or 156 or should be 208 or 300.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I wish to ask whether it is within the Rules of this House for any Member to launch allegations of financial interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member move?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "itted to the course, and by that simple process—what is called credit betting—the whole thing will be legalised, if Clause 17 of this Bill goes through in its present form. That was not intended in 1928, either by the promoters of the Bill or by the Government; and it must be recalled that the Government had to adopt that baby as their own, otherwise it would have died stillborn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "ge sums of money should go across the Channel. I object to that as strongly as the hon. Member for South Kensington, and I desire to stop that considerable export of money through the purchase of sweepstake tickets, but I hope that that matter will not be introduced. I hope that the hon. Member will agree with me that that ought not to be used as an argument in favour of lotteries in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "On the question of setting aside the Royal Commission as being unimportant we are prepared to argue it on the Floor of the House and in the country. The Royal Commission was not made up of partisans. They were people who came with an understanding mind and great business experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "On the question of setting aside the Royal Commission as being unimportant we are prepared to argue it on the Floor of the House and in the country. The Royal Commission was not made up of partisans. They were people who came with an understanding mind and great business experience. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] I say that they came with an understanding mind and great business experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CRITCHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CRITCHLEY", "preceding_text": "I gave evidence before that Royal Commission, and I may say that a. more biased crowd I have never met. The Commission had not one person on it who knew anything about gambling. I asked them what six to four on the field bar two meant, and not one of them knew. Certain members of that Commission had definite axes to grind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.980.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rot\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "opportunity of hearing the representatives of the Churches and it is a very remarkable think how the Churches have been united in their representations to the House of Commons on this matter. If this Amendment were adopted, it would give them a message, not of hope but of disappointment. I am certain that the carrying of this Amendment would do more than anything else to bring down the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-06", "file": "debates1934-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3e619ab8909de75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.935.10", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": " and my Amendment is not inserted, people will be guilty of contravening the Sub-section, although they may have taken the word of the person concerned on the question of age. I always claim, despite the appeal of a large number of Members in this House as to the despoiling of juvenile morals, that the younger element, the youth of this country, to-day is as keen on betting as some of the seniors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-06a.935.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1060.9", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which cause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I happen to have a book of these tickets on me now, and they are going to be sold by me. If at the end of the time when the tickets expire, I have not sold the lot, I shall give them away. It is all for the good of the cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1060.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "s crime and we ought not to agree to any provision which is open to the objection which the right hon. Gentleman has indicated. Unless there are words in the Clause defining the limits within which a prosecution can arise, the Bill will be unfair to the public. Those of us who sit on these benches and who share the view I have expressed are doing our best to help the Home Secretary with this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1070.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "No, but I wish to. move one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "ress. Now we come down to the rights and liberties of the people, and, surely, if we proceed to tighten up the law in this country in relation to lotteries, we must no carry out that tightening process by striking a blow at the primitive right of the people of this country of being proved guilty of any charge being brought against them. The Amendment should be accepted by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " of the lotteries usually held in connection with bazaars, sales of work and so forth. A good many of us in our political life have experience of these entertainments and as far as I know the normal practice is to raffle some article which has been presented for that purpose. I do not think I have ever known the case in which the promoters of a bazaar have gone out and bought things to be raffled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "n with experience will agree, to have the tickets printed and distributed and sold beforehand by the organisers of the bazaar, or whatever it may be. I see no reason why that should be prohibited by the Bill. To do so would act as a great handicap upon those who are trying to raise funds for some worthy cause, whether it be to advance the cause of Conservatism or Socialism, or to repair the organ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "en guilty of it, you would say, \"You naughty boy,\" and that would be the extent of the condemnation that would be visited upon him. It is only a sample of the wrong-headedness of the Government. It will cost them their life, because people will not put up with such a prostitution of justice. It is a very remarkable thing that the Socialists and the Samuelite Liberals are supporting the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "der that the penalties proposed in this Clause will apply to all people who are operating what are legally called \"lotteries.\" Once this Bill becomes law it will mean that any one of us who has been engaged directly in a fun fair, as many hon. Members opposite must have been engaged from time to time, will have been engaged in practices which will be a contravention of the law if this Bill passes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "Are hon. Members aware that under the Act of 1853, which the Home Secretary does not propose to repeal, they are liable if they engage in the simple pursuit of cocoanut shies, and that many men who are occupied in these simple pursuits in this industry find themselves within the purview of the police, and have been taken before the magistrates and fined sums exceeding £50 and up to £100?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I want to remind the hon. Member that I did not intervene in his speech. It is very unbecoming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "nd the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) compliments a private Member on having a solution. Is it a solution? Some hon. Members are interested in horse-racing, and it may be desired to maintain the position of another sport, but I want to see fair play. I am fully convinced that if this House which professes to deal fair and square with a particular interest means anything at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1213.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-07", "file": "debates1934-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "424449d176d5eed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1243.7", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "ittee what has been the practice in the past. Not long ago one Society was of the elect; then for some years two others; when the Municipal Audit Bill was passed last year the list was four. Then the Goschen Committee considered the matter long and carefully, and only two years ago they said they could not define precisely what an accountant was. But does this Bill tell us? It is an amazing thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-07a.1243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "I am saying I do not believe that any of the regulations will prevent the sending of arms to another country. It can be done with regard to Bolivia and Paraguay by sending through the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1300.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "Then does the right hon. Gentleman say that marriage should be abolished because it is one of the recognised ways in which men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1306.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "By some branches.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman himself says that neither the one leaflet nor the other is being circulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "fice and make a perfectly simple statement about it, we never allow our diplomatic or consular representatives abroad to act as travellers or canvassers for armament firms—never. Our diplomatic help is given only when a foreign State has announced its intentions to purchase from abroad. Then our service naturally does its best to secure that the British firms should get a proper opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " with whom he does not agree. I mean no offence when I say that we expected less from him than from the Secretary of State. I am indeed surprised that he should have chosen to couple in that condemnation those workers in the cause of peace who are giving their time and their energy to promoting a national declaration. It is time that the people of this country faced the realities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " produce armaments were no longer in private hands, the nation would be incapable of producing a sufficient supply of munitions in time of war. Is that true? What happened during the Great War? Although we had in existence then this elaborate system of private manufacture of arms, although we know that the operation of the armaments interest was one of the causes which brought about the War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "is undesirable, and I cannot see the slightest objection to a broad proposition of that kind being put to the people. The Foreign Secretary, in speaking this afternoon, for the first time threw off the mask and—I presume on behalf of the Government—declared war on the whole of the peace movement in this country. There is no doubt that is what he did. That is how it will be interpreted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "of a certain state parading in front of children and presenting them with small rifles in order that they should be trained in the arts of war. Every Power in the world to-day appears to be engaged in a passionate endeavour to build faster and more deadly bombing planes, to manufacture the most devastating poison gases, and generally to collect the most potent instruments of death and destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In peace time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " Of course it would. Oleum, the right hon. Gentleman knows very well, is used in a limited way for a certain number of commercial manufacturing purposes, and for such purposes it would be used, but we should not have been dependent upon the producers, the private manufacturers, of oleum to meet the war demands, so far as they were required, of that product. We would make them ourselves, as we did,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "Why was that? It was because Woolwich made a mere handful of these things in the first instance, and as soon as we got the factories, instead of making a handful at Woolwich we used it for filling and testing and other purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-08", "file": "debates1934-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2184ef76ab081cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF AND TRADE IN ARMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "Speaking from recollection, I cannot say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-08a.1405.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "go to the effect that the proposed 20 per cent. allowance for expenses and profits is too high to be given to those who are simply organising gambling facilities for private gain. Another weakness of the Clause is that the qualified accountant may be appointed by the company who are running the pool. They would be his employers, and he might give the figures which were given to him by the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ad the responsibility for dealing with this problem that we were attempting to deal with a section of off-the-course betting which was in a different situation from the great mass of material with which the Government had originally set out to deal. It is, I think, quite certain that the Government had taken into consideration whether they could carry that which the original Bill set out to carry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "Unless the recent Bill of the hon. and learned Member for the Moss Side Division of Manchester (Sir G. Hurst) were adopted by this House, I should suggest that the common informer should do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Argyle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "ll of which he thinks he knows something about, though really he knows very little indeed about them, will win or lose or draw. I do not suppose one of my constituents in Cornwall interested in these pools—as many of them have written to tell me they are—have ever seen one of these teams play, although they are so confident of predicting the results—except Plymouth Albion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1600.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1638.3", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "A decision has been taken by the responsible Government, and has been announced to the House more than once, and that is the position by which we stand. I can understand the view of those who wish to see Part II dropped, but the truth is that the Government have decided otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1638.3", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "nment, and has been announced to the House more than once, and that is the position by which we stand. I can understand the view of those who wish to see Part II dropped, but the truth is that the Government have decided otherwise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] They have dealt with this problem after very careful consideration, and alter having taken into consideration the report of the Royal Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "een made. The interests concerned have met. At least, the representatives of 60 to 80 per cent. of the tracks' in the country have come to a common agreement, and I would urge the importance of meeting them not simply from their point of view but in the interests of those who will be thrown out of work unless something can be done. It was considered at the outset that 310 days ought to be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1653.8", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not winners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "number of days does not count; it is the principle that matters. Some men can afford to use the telephone and telegraph and back horses and dogs every day of the week. I have seen hon. Members in the telephone room here. I have sat next to another Member of the House who has been backing horses when there were no horses running—backing them at night time. I cannot back them in the clay time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1653.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four meetings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ld be confined to any two days in a week. They can, as the House know, if they have the unanimity which is now indicated from certain quarters, have their close season without any interference from Parliament. They can so organise the running of their affairs and they can have, in fact, that for which they were asking. Let the House make no mistake that this was the adding of four days to the 100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " thought fair, and what the Home Secretary thought fair, that is, have a close season for three months and racing on the remaining 37 weeks of the year, which would meet the views of all reasonable-minded men? There is a further point. If you allow the employés—there are some 30,000, I believe—to be employed on 111 days, it will enable them, I am told, to get unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1664.3", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "this connection 7 Are they to go down to history as the Government which made it impossible for the working man to run his own greyhound at those tracks? If so, while that may excite the applause of the Samuelite rump, with the ardent support of the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor), who is always anxious to strike a, blow at working class liberty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I have spoken only once to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1676.5", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBRRS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "As the Home-Secretary disclaims all idea of bullying, or of dictating to the House, why does not he accept the Adjournment? He said that he was willing to meet the views of the House. The House wishes to adjourn now, so why not accept it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1676.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. I do so for two reasons. I honestly believe that it is a reasonable, practicable and fair one. Also it will give the Under-Secretary an opportunity of demonstrating for the first time in the course of the Debate that he is very sincere and honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. and gallant Friend for that information, which I observed he obtained from under the Gallery", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-12", "file": "debates1934-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "772b6ce0a10f38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " did ask for it, that obstruction was put in their way? Now I will turn to the next point. The Under-Secretary of State, when he is asked if it refers to the persons who fail to exercise their option or to persons who refuse to facilitate him in his duty, he gives no answer at all. It is not as if he is a Minister who is not glad to give information. When he has it, he is glad to give information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-12a.1721.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-13", "file": "debates1934-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ea9ec9af2b216e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "CLAUSE 21.—(Illegality of lotteries.)", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Gilmour)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "he publication of the results of sweepstakes, who is it that should speak on this point? A letter appeared this morning in a newspaper which has a very wide circulation and which, if it looked at this matter purely as one of business, would desire to continue the publication of those results. That paper takes quite the contrary view. I have in my pocket a letter from the owner of that great paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-13", "file": "debates1934-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ea9ec9af2b216e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Provisions regulating the establishment and operation of totalisators on dog racecourses.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "preceding_text": "e that he had in mind in drafting the Bill is exactly the purpose which the hon. Baronet the Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto), and various other hon. Members who have put down Amendments, have also tried to achieve. The Home Secretary has undertaken that if some time it is shown by experience that the Act is not going to be a satisfactory method, the Government will introduce legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-13", "file": "debates1934-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ea9ec9af2b216e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1896.1", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Provisions regulating the establishment and operation of totalisators on dog racecourses.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tote betting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "The first part of the Bill deals with betting. It restricts betting on the track to a maximum of 104 days a year, not necessarily two days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-13", "file": "debates1934-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ea9ec9af2b216e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Provisions regulating the establishment and operation of totalisators on dog racecourses.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "I beg the indulgence of the House, and I shall only keep them for a few minutes, because I am conscious that I have spoken more than I should have done on this Bill. I hope that I shall not be misunderstood if I express my congratulations to the Home Secretary and the Under-Secretary of State on their conduct of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-13a.1903.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-14", "file": "debates1934-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "08c5d05643495afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "DEPRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And we have plaid for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "re not wanted either, but that we should share out what work there is. That, again, is a suggestion to throw back upon the ordinary working people the responsibility for unemployment. In one of the reports is a proposal to have a new beet sugar factory. Would the people in this country eat more sugar if we had another beet sugar factory in South Wales? We have all the beet sugar factories we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-14", "file": "debates1934-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "08c5d05643495afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "DEPRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It nearly ruined us!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "s which are not so distressed or by taking work from one area and putting it into a depressed district. There are other proposals which have some substance. All those which are of any real constructive and permanent value have been part of the policy of my party for many years. There is the return to constructive works. No Government ever did more in that direction than the late Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2074.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-14", "file": "debates1934-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "08c5d05643495afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2092.5", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "DEPRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "een June, 1929, and August, 1931, his Gov- ernment approved of expenditure of £192,000,000 upon public works, excluding housing. The maximum number of men ever employed directly on those works at any one time was 114,000. When the National Government came in relief work was stopped and in the three years which the present Government have been in power 868,000 men have been put back into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-14a.2092.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-15", "file": "debates1934-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "5b1cf76cf1c851f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-15a.2227.3", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surely not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " on reasonable opportunities for the raising of topics in Debate. We must remember that the old practice of the House in relation to a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public importance was that the Motion should come on directly at a quarter to four. When I first entered the House that was the invariable rule, and many a great debate have I heard spring up in a flash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-15a.2227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-15", "file": "debates1934-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "5b1cf76cf1c851f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-15a.2287.3", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"There are none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "cedure short and to go behind a great deal of that red tape. It is precisely to enable experiments on a very large scale of every sort and kind to be made in the depressed areas with a view to solving these very problems that we have set up these commissioners. The commissioners are not going to stop in any way any existing activity of the central government or the local government in those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-15a.2287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all young.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "o say that the House of Commons is still producing the kind of men of whom we read who lived here in the past and made their names by great speeches on great occasions. I am probably one of the oldest men here, and I much appreciate what the hon. Member said about the younger Members of the House. I think that the younger men who are in the House, and, if I may say so, the younger women too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t. I heard all that nonsense when the Irish question was discussed. We have to deal with a country where there is great unrest, and in trying to settle that unrest we must give heed to those who are able to speak for the people there, and in our view no settlement of the Indian problem can be satisfactory which is not acceptable to the people of India, that is, those people who are vocal in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he description of his hon. and right hon. Friends that he gave us a day or two ago, and I am looking forward to enjoying some more of it. But he must not expect us to help him. We shall enjoy what he says, but we shall not vote for any die-hards or livehards or any people of that sort, because we shall fight this Bill by putting down our statement of our case—if we have one against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ars of discussion the economic condition of India should be left as it is. While we talk here of our poverty and our distressed areas let us never forget that in that great continent there are millions of people who just live from hand to mouth from one year's end to the other, that disease and famine are the lot of millions of people, and that at the moment precious little is being done for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "l, in the very nature of the case, must be a big one. It must be bulky; it must be rather complex; it must have a good many Clauses in it; and it will require, as I have said, a reasonable time—a fair time; and I am sorry to say that, in order to provide that time, I shall have to ask the House to-morrow to pass a Resolution giving the Government private Members' time throughout the Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Next century?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "her countries that, as soon as they are willing to come to an arrangement that will be fair, we are prepared to come to that arrangement. With regard to housing, how often did we hear during the last Session that our housing schemes were failing? That is not true. We are determined that our housing schemes shall succeed still more. Slums are going to disappear—we do not say next month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ce we have got overcrowding out of the way, should prevent it occurring again. We shall protect the houses which have been built to displace overcrowded houses, and not allow the new houses to become as bad and even worse. So with distressed areas. A Bill will be introduced very shortly. I see that the political complaint is being made that our plan is not going to apply to the country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not licked yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "fortunate that decent people like ourselves can never find anyone who will just play the game according to our standards. May I say, quite seriously, that I do not think Great Britain will do itself much good in its world standing by becoming a little peevish every time things are not going well. It is very much better to take your licking with a stiff upper lip and to smile and laugh if possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.45.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-11-20", "file": "debates1934-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a040b7ba6477e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "I make no imputation. I apply to the work of the conference what I and the majority of people outside would apply to the work of any other conference. If a conference has been prolonged for two or three years without being able to reach success, it is a matter for serious consideration whether the chairmanship of that conference is in the right hands or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-20a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hing themselves as Parliamentary figures who would, in time, replace those who sit upon the Front Bench. Why is it necessary for the Government to do this? They have an enormous majority, far larger than they require. But, quite apart from that, on the particular Bill which is to be the main topic in the new Session, the India Bill, they have the promised support of the Socialist Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal of sympathy with the last point raised by the right hon. and gallant Member, but I have no sympathy whatever with the attitude of the Opposition in this matter. Surely, if there be a complete waste of time it must be a private Bill brought in by a Member of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANSTRUTHER-GRAY", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal of sympathy with the last point raised by the right hon. and gallant Member, but I have no sympathy whatever with the attitude of the Opposition in this matter. Surely, if there be a complete waste of time it must be a private Bill brought in by a Member of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it has no hope at all of being passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "and this is the important point—he made it clear that it was not intended to take away from the House the right of discussing urgent matters. Anyone who looks over the number of occasions on which the Adjournment has been successfully moved in the last 10 or 15 years and compares it with the first 20 years after the Rule was brought in will see that there has been a very great change indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.188.7", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ncashire. As I have said, he was a candidate in my district only a few years ago, but now he has gone to Lancashire, and is still asking the Government, \"What are you going to do about it?\" They have done all that he asked them to do when he was in my part of the world. Tariff Reform was all he wanted then, and he now has a full jorum of it. We are one of the highest tariff countries in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.188.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.188.7", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So can we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "t it?\" They have done all that he asked them to do when he was in my part of the world. Tariff Reform was all he wanted then, and he now has a full jorum of it. We are one of the highest tariff countries in the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes. We start putting on tariffs and other countries retaliate, and it is a case of diamond cut diamond. They can play the game in their own particular way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.188.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "ghton (Mr. Rhys Davies) but by back bench supporters of the Government who have referred in very depressing terms to the conditions in the industry. Here is the President of the Board of Trade indicating to the House, to Lancashire and to the country, that, notwithstanding the fact that the condition of that industry is almost entirely the result of its mishandling by those who are controlling it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "industry is almost entirely the result of its mishandling by those who are controlling it. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman referred to the fact that the condition of the industry is such that a financial ramp is responsible, and it is only those people who own the industry who could indulge in a financial ramp. If that be the reason why the industry is in the condition that it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "f Trade. That is the statement that has been made. If every Minister were as honest as the President of the Board of Trade, the same thing could be said of many other industries, and for that reason I wonder at the timidity of the Government in not taking the matter into their own hands, but in leaving it to those who have brought the industry into that condition and allowing it to get even worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-21", "file": "debates1934-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c6cfdb23fe44107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have them all here. If the hon. Gentleman agrees, I will read them out to him, or I will hand my statement to him so that he can study them at his leisure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-21a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-22", "file": "debates1934-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4290faf9695f5ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " do, within the limits of its duty to this country and this Empire, in order to secure a naval understanding on this matter. I turn to one or two other matters, and I should like at once to deal with the question referred to by the hon. Gentleman opposite and referred to in the Debate a fortnight ago, the question of the arms traffic. The Debate a fortnight ago was not a satisfactory Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-22", "file": "debates1934-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4290faf9695f5ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "s I would wish to do the considerations which arise on this subject in a way which created the impression that I wished to create, and I think it is very much better to say so. If a speech is to be judged, not by the exact words which are used, but by the impression which, I will not say it sought to create, but which has been created about it outside, well then mine was a very unfortunate speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-22", "file": "debates1934-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4290faf9695f5ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is economic!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ing, and which I detest and want to stop just as much as he does, is caused by the fact that the frontiers of the Chaco, that great area in the Middle of South America, have never been defined. The controversy has been going on for, I should think, over 50 years. No doubt it is quite true that one of the elements is that Bolivia would like to have a port on the great river that runs through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-22", "file": "debates1934-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4290faf9695f5ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": "s. Hon. Members opposite believe on the other hand that individualism must provide the solution. We believe in fundamentally opposed philosophies, but surely we ought all to be in favour of having the very best informed electorate possible to hear and pronounce upon our respective views. If there is a well-informed electorate it will not be so easy for Socialist speakers to bamboozle people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-22", "file": "debates1934-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4290faf9695f5ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": " particularly concerned with them. Let, me rather apply myself to the speech just made by the hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. Hicks), dealing with housing in particular. It needs a certain degree of insensitiveness in an hon. Member on those benches to challenge this Government for what they are doing in the matter of slums. What did the Labour party ever do to deal with slums and overcrowding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-22a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-23", "file": "debates1934-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6800bb490f53742e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPORN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPORN", "preceding_text": "nk will help us and need not fear that the Government or any of us in this House will charge them with wasting money merely because the experiments happened not to be successful. It is along the line of experiment that we may, perhaps, hope for the best results. The policy of the Government has resulted, undoubtedly, in a considerable increase in the purchasing power of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-23", "file": "debates1934-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6800bb490f53742e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " the asking of a question necessarily supplies the answer, or criticises the Government's answer. It is premature to make that assumption. If within a certain number of weeks there is no indication that there is an answer to these questions they can be put again in a much more pungent form, but for the moment they are quite proper questions to put and the answers will be forthcoming in due season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-23", "file": "debates1934-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6800bb490f53742e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five years afterwards!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "timulation of the depressed export trades, for the economic development of My Overseas Dependencies; for the improvement of the condition of agriculture; for the encouragement of the fishing industry; for the improvement of facilities for the marketing of farm and fishing outputs. Does anybody suggest that on those particular lines of investigation His Majesty's Government are not taking measures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-23a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " of then. The whole point is to create the conditions in which those schemes can be put into operation and in which they will work successfully. The Labour party made it impossible for any scheme to work successfully. The avalanche of distrust which they created by everything they said and did swept away any good which they could perform. They succeeded in shaking British credit to its foundation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "at as soon as a Labour Government came in it would have to produce emergency measures to prevent the currency from collapsing. But if a Labour Government came in upon the programme which has been announced, the collapse in currency would have taken place as soon as the figures were announced and long before Parliament could pass any emergency measures whatever. There would be a run upon the banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " you find in their area? You may say that they have not acquired so much technical information in regard to machinery as other countries, but take the thing in which they are richest, richer than any other country, the means for the production of food. What is the position of their people with regard to food? It is common knowledge that vast masses of Russians to-day are starving for want of food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Anomalies Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ment with an unparalleled majority has been so successful as to put more people into work, why is it that there are over 500,000 more people on the Poor Law than there were three years ago? It was not my intention to raise this point, but when I am challenged about the number of people who are being employed, I am entitled to ask why there are more destitute people than there were three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "re were three years ago. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The Anomalies Act!\"] This Government is an anomaly. We have put down this Amendment specifically to challenge the Government. The Government have had three years. At the end of that period they have satisfied the people who support them, they have satisfied the big interests, but they have left this country with a larger volume of sheer destitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "e they going to find it any better than those at present engaged in manufacturing those goods, whose livelihood depends on the fact that they are working under the same stimulus of profit? I do not think that Civil Servants, however admirable, would be able to excel those at present engaged in assiduity, skill and good temper, which counts for a great deal in the East in the sale of British goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about royalties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "g stations than to what actually happens on the Floor of this House. What is to be done by those who run the Socialist State when they come to the placing of coal orders? The reason that we do not get more orders abroad is because our coal is too dear. It is higher in price than coal supplied from some other coalfields, and it therefore becomes urgently necessary to do what we can to reduce costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ustments about it and such great problems to solve abroad, into the hands of experimenters? They have never succeeded; indeed, they have not had the opportunity of making an experiment. It is only nowadays that they are pleading for the chance of dealing with our industries in this way. I think the House will not too easily be persuaded to play ducks and drakes with the employment of our citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "I think the House will not too easily be persuaded to play ducks and drakes with the employment of our citizens. [ Laughter. ] These are serious matters to those engaged in them. A number of other industries are dependent on foreign markets. In the course of this Debate we have heard a good deal about plenty and poverty, in close proximity, even existing very near this House. It is certainly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-26", "file": "debates1934-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "24df7524570bdef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disused slag-heaps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "and the like, and we have not shown ourselves at all obstinate in considering these methods, and we have not been without enterprise in dealing with some of them. We are trying to do the same thing with regard to many of these industries, and we will examine them at close quarters. I hope it will not be necessary to say that we are not unsympathetic and that we are not \"a row of extinct volcanos.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-26a.631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DRUNKENNESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that, now that drunkenness has increased by 20 per cent. all over the country, something ought to be done in the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "No doubt there is some truth in that, but not the whole truth. My hon. Friend will admit that on the whole the Donoughmore Report declared that this process of legislation by means of regulations and Orders was a necessary condition of modern legislation, and it laid down certain safeguards which in the main have been rigidly adhered to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "people who went to Canada, Australia and to New Zealand went to escape from the bondage of the results of unlimited private enterprise. They said: \"Let us go to a land, not where we can make so much profit, but where we can live away from the mill master.\" There was another thing that I thought. I thought we were going to have something about the iniquities of the Government in respect of tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ew besides that. That scheme or policy must do two things. It must first contain machinery for seeing that the producer really gets the benefit that we intend him to have, and also it must be designed to help the consumer by supplying him with the goods in the form he wants them at the price he is able to pay. I notice that hon. Members below the Gangway lost sight altogether of this vital matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bosh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Hillhead, but I thank God for the changes that have been made in my lifetime. One of the most untrue and unfair things that the Labour party are always suggesting is that the people are not enjoying the amenities which their fathers enjoyed. The population of this country in the last century has increased four-fold and the standard of life of the people has increased four-fold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is under an extraordinary delusion about this matter. He ought to speak to his hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley. The formation of a group with lower tariffs involves the raising of tariffs against countries which are not in that group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-27", "file": "debates1934-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c0b17530beb0e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "hich in previous years he did not approve. He realises that the world all the time is marching on, and he is not content to remain in a backwater and allow the main stream to pass. My suggestion is that the policy of the National Government has been justified up to the hilt and nobody has benefited more than the working-classes. The National Government have been far too modest in their own claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-27a.796.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-28", "file": "debates1934-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd08a3eb90f3af9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "his moment than that Europe should speedily march back upon her tracks and take up the position on which she stood when the Versailles Treaty was discussed, and, in the matter of armaments, any-way, carry out loyally, faithfully and honourably the undertaking which was given when the Treaty was signed. We have no right to ask other people to be loyal to their word unless we first be loyal to ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-28", "file": "debates1934-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd08a3eb90f3af9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have done a lot more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "s Treaty was discussed, and, in the matter of armaments, any-way, carry out loyally, faithfully and honourably the undertaking which was given when the Treaty was signed. We have no right to ask other people to be loyal to their word unless we first be loyal to ours. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We are.\"] No, we are not. We have not done what we said was to be done when that Treaty was signed some years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-28", "file": "debates1934-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd08a3eb90f3af9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Turkish Government. He was denounced in exactly the same kind of language as that in which we are denounced whenever we have the impudence to disagree with the Government. It is an entirely new doctrine that those who disagree with the Government have not the right to say so and give reasons why they disagree. Hon. Members of the Liberal party stand up in an apologetic manner and also instruct us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-28", "file": "debates1934-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd08a3eb90f3af9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ty outside will remember that we do not care very much what they think about us but we do feel that they might have the decency to treat Ls as they would themselves like to be treated, and that is, that when they happen to disagree with us they should concede to us the right to have our own view without its being called into question. We have no intention and no desire to make peace a party issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-28", "file": "debates1934-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd08a3eb90f3af9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "sented this very scheme to the House, the right hon. Baronet and his friends put down an Amendment in which they said that they would not approve of any expansion of our own armaments unless it was clear that the Disarmament Conference had failed. Not only so, but they were so far from being clear in the month of July that those of them who were here voted against the Government, on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-28a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-29", "file": "debates1934-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6279321ea3311e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ations in order to take a supply from the Central Electricity Board. We cannot keep enlarging industries and throwing people on the employment market without some means whereby they can live. I hope that during the passage of the Bill the Minister will suggest something which will help to cover that difficulty. The Act of 1926 stated definitely that direct supply to railways should not be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-29", "file": "debates1934-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6279321ea3311e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never will\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "preceding_text": "authority although, in the main it would not be that particular authority which would actually supply the electricity to them. The supply would be done eventually through the local companies. The railway companies in supporting this Measure have no desire to cut out the smaller companies. Their sole desire is that when they come to main line electrification if indeed they ever do come to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-29", "file": "debates1934-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6279321ea3311e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. BARRIE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. BARRIE", "preceding_text": "way companies base themselves on the recommendations of those committees and I am content to stand on the reports made by those two committees. They spent a long time in discussing these matters and went into the question very fully. I would prefer to base myself on their reports rather than go through the long process of setting up a select committee, to get probably some other verdict from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-11-29", "file": "debates1934-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "6279321ea3311e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not Socialists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": "thers have done under the 1926 Act. I cannot understand the opposition of so many hon. Members to this Bill. I may be very ignorant about the implications generally, but it seems to me that the chief reason why they oppose the Measure is that they suspect it to be an expansion of public ownership and control. I agree that it is, but I cannot understand why they should be so bitterly opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-11-29a.1072.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-03", "file": "debates1934-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c8293de9b5856872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six and a-half per cent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Board. It is nothing but humbug for Members to come here and express fine ideas about helping the distressed areas when we still find a situation in which those poor devils there are having money collected from them to pay a higher interest on Local Government Loans than prevails on the money market to-day. They are paying 5½ per cent. on some of these long outstanding Local Government Loans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-03", "file": "debates1934-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c8293de9b5856872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ng, miserable, miserly way. May I give the alternative suggestion which we have given so often from these benches? The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour, as is routine in these Debates, compared our relatively better position with that of the United States. It is usual to remind us how much better off we are than some other place, and how much better this country has weathered the storm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-03", "file": "debates1934-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c8293de9b5856872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "he letter and is having the effect of bringing extremely valuable orders to manufacturers in this country. To those who maybe disposed to criticise the suggestion, I would point out that there has never been any default in the case of Russia. We have lent money freely all over the world, and in many cases we have lost both capital and interest, but in the case of Russia we have never lost a penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-03", "file": "debates1934-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c8293de9b5856872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cemeteries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "er cannot interfere with housing, because the Minister of Health is responsible for housing. The commissioner cannot interfere with roads; he cannot interfere with schools or school playgrounds or playing fields, because every one of these things is in a category for which Government Departments are directly responsible and for which grants are made. What other work has the commissioner to choose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1357.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-03", "file": "debates1934-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c8293de9b5856872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So there are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "the Board of Trade whether in regard to a question of shipbuilding, our mercantile marine, firemen and sailors, these three British ships which are to be built in Germany, or about to be built in Germany, could not be built in British shipyards and on the Merseyside? What answer did I get from the responsible Minister of the Board of Trade? That there are other ports besides the port of Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-03a.1374.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-04", "file": "debates1934-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "039049b266915a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-04a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Increase consumption!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLAY", "preceding_text": "s. People are sceptical about it now, but there are possibilities in it, and I hope it may be a success. The Government must look ahead from to-day onwards, in case this conference fails, in case at the end of 1935 trade is as bad as it is to-day, and in case the foreigner continues to subsidise. The Government have to look ahead to-day and make up their minds what policy they are going to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-04a.1512.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-06", "file": "debates1934-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "3394233b931000e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-06a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Appointment and Functions of Commissioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " talking about tariffs and so on, but what we need for agriculture is real thorough-going organisation — first a survey to know what the land is fit for and then national planning, not merely to see how much profit can be made out of the land for some idle people but to see how much food can be grown for the people to consume. I am not going to raise the question of Socialism just now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-06a.1872.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "t to us, it might mean suffering on the part of many of our people, and it might mean some suffering to this country, but we should survive. For those who are in India, however, if these things happen of which the right hon. Gentleman has been speaking, the risk is final, absolute and irremediable—and they are the people who ask us to take the risk. The Princes ask us to take the risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ster of Mysore, Sir Mirza Ismail who said in effect: I know the risks; I know the difficulties; but I ask this country to give this Measure of self-government to India. One after another, those who have everything at stake asked that these risks should be taken. Who are we to talk about risks in the light of that? The Princes ask us to take the risk; the missionaries ask us to take the risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "preceding_text": "ment behind it. Secondly, it will not have the invaluable British element in the services. Thirdly, the Cabinet will consist of Hindus, Mohammedans and the Princes' representatives all tugging and pulling in different directions, with contrary aims and conflicting interests. Consider the effect on defence. I cannot develop that point because I do not wish to inflict myself too long upon the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "do what the Indian people can do theselves. I believe that the women of India have moved so far forward already that, given a share in the rule of their country, we shall see changes which will make even the most gloomy here see some good points in this Constitution. For some months up and down the country we have been told that this new Constitution will affect the trade of the country adversely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is ruined already!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "ly. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] To-day we have heard not one word of it until the applause of my hon. Friend in front. To-day we have heard that the people who will be damaged are the Indians themselves, and we have heard a plea put in for the peasants and for the Princes, but we have not heard one plea for British trade, though up and down the country we have been told that it will be ruined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-10", "file": "debates1934-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1025a32e6d931250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "INDIA (TANGASSERI AND BANGALORE).", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "requently given, that in reality there are 125,000 persons, approximately, in the assigned tract, and the House has been told on repeated occasions that over 100,000 of these are actually considered and believed to be subjects of the State of Mysore. I wish to be perfectly straight with the House. I confess that at Question Time to-day, when attempting to answer this very confusing question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-10a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-11", "file": "debates1934-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "628b56bf5ef02379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "nment in India even at this moment not 10 per cent. of the Indian population can be said to be literate. Who, therefore, is to blame if the Indian people on these two grounds are not able to accept responsibility for their own well-being? I do not deny, it would be foolish to deny, that much has been done for India by the British during our occupation of India. I cordially and freely confess that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-11", "file": "debates1934-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "628b56bf5ef02379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander JAMES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander JAMES", "preceding_text": " Committee gave in paragraph 378 ( f ) what appears to me to be a' very definite and satisfactory decision, because in that paragraph, as I read it, they say that those areas, either to be excluded or to be partially excluded, are to be specified and are to be prescribed by Order-in-Council after the passing of the Act. If that is to be interpreted literally, it gives me the greatest satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-11", "file": "debates1934-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "628b56bf5ef02379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "at any rate we can act in confidence, in strength. No one can accuse us of surrendering to intimidation or anarchy. India is better governed to-day than she has been for a long time past, and while I do not lay much stress on historical parallels, it is worth while remembering that wherever we have given self-government in our strength in the past it has succeeded. When we gave it to Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-11", "file": "debates1934-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "628b56bf5ef02379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ng political democracy as an instrument of government. The first question we are asked when debating the Indian problem is whether the Indians are fit for self-government. Some hon. Members from the South of England, especially the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth, have been to Lancashire telling the people that the Indians are not fit to govern themselves. As a Lancashire man myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-11", "file": "debates1934-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "628b56bf5ef02379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Socialist solution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)", "preceding_text": "ore and many of the native States you have a far higher measure of literacy than in British India. You have that on the principles taught through the medium of Whig books under the domination of the Whig doctrinaire, Lord Macaulay, and the result is that you have the political problems with which you are faced to-day. Now, when we put forward a Tory solution with a measure of responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-11a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-12", "file": "debates1934-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2831ae66351fb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ational manner. We at least will do that, and will stand the \"chivying\" of the right hon. Gentleman when the time comes. I may remind the House, amid all these rhetorical fireworks, that it seems to have been forgotten that we have been discussing questions affecting the lives of 350,000,000 people, and that no voice from India has been heard in these debates, no Indian has been able to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-12", "file": "debates1934-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2831ae66351fb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " warfare they were projected suddenly into the ghastly slaughter of Ypres. I would also point out that these men were brought to fight for freedom, for the right of small nationalities to self-government. Probably they went back to their homes having heard this from Belgians, Frenchmen and Englishmen. And people sneer and jeer at them to-day as if they were incapable of managing their own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-12", "file": "debates1934-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2831ae66351fb6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "e whether it agrees with the Government that a Bill shall be framed on the report of the Joint Select Committee, which is clearly and distinctly the step which it recommends the House to take at this time, a step not so long as the right hon. Gentleman desires but longer than is desired by some of my hon. Friends. The real opposition to this recommendation comes from a number of my own supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-12a.512.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.542.6", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, those I have seen are fully representative of Lancashire interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.542.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "n extension of the shipping and shipbuilding industry. I am in favour of the Bill as a palliative, or as an experiment, or as an endeavour to relieve the terrible distress and poverty. Anybody with a spark of humanity would subscribe to that. This Bill, however, is no solution. My friends and I will vote for it because it is something, and I believe hon. Members above the Gangway will vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which are not in the Schedule!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Yes, and over South Wales which is very bad, and the West of Scotland and other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"250,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "ghtly put it, to the question of deciding whether planning is the method of dealing with the phenomenon. Frankly I say that planning is a two-sided thing. One cannot dogmatise upon it. Hon. Members above the Gangway are interested in the mining industry. If planning is to be carried to its logical conclusion in that industry they must be prepared to see possibly another 100,000 men put out of work", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Radical idea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "nally of the industry. But it cannot be ignored. I did not rise, however, to refer to that, but to speak of the nationalisation of royalties. There is not the slightest doubt that in the distressed areas there is unanimity amongst investigators on this question. That is not a Socialist idea any longer, and even if it were a Socialist idea we can afford to learn from Socialists if a thing is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-13", "file": "debates1934-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e6c77492e5897b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPRESSED AREAS (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "o examine the broader issues. In the end, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) has said, just as this Government have tackled housing and slums, so they will have to tackle land settlement on an equally ambitious scale. That is my opinion. I know that hon. Members above the Gangway will say that you cannot make shipwrights and engineers live on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-13a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-14", "file": "debates1934-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fccd1052a3423df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-14a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": " that merchants could not in fairness fail to accept their offers, we had to put our shipowners in a position of competition whereby they too could procure a share of these trades and ultimately, as we hope, bite into the amount of trade that is taken by the foreign subsidised vessels. There is no question of the Government taking over the shipping industry or attempting the nationalisation of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-14a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "While that is so, I would like to press the point that the British subjects who are in this police force were recruited with the knowledge and at least the acquiesence of the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In fact!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ake one general remark. There is, and there can be, no fixed limit on the amount of assistance which is given by the new Unemployment Assistance Board. Transitional payments were limited by the benefit rates, but benefit, of course, itself was limited by the rates laid down by this House. But in both those eases, theoretically at any rate, there was recourse, in case of need, to public assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "onal scheme was to get uniformity and to do away with the vast differences between various areas. You cannot expect, in attempting to get uniformity, that you will not get some decreases as well as some increases. But the figures of the cost that I have given and the fact that the unemployed on transitional payment are going to get £3,000,000 a year more than they are getting this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e quite irrelevant, or they are not. It is possible, in spite of the command from Parliament in the Act that they should have regard to needs, that they will not have regard to needs where wages are low, for fear of pauperising the poor. That is the dilemma into which the capitalist system has fallen, and it is not for us to get it out of the dilemma. The Government cannot ride two horses at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "for the other necessities of life, and it is right that this scale should be proportionate. The hon. Member seemed to object to the fact that the levelling in some cases might be downward. When we discussed in this House the anomalies which existed in parts of the country in regard to unemployment relief, nobody thought the highest possible scale in any locality would be chosen as the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ed areas to distribute £2,000,000 in various forms. You are taking from the distressed areas by these Regulations much more money than you are sending the commissioners to spend. The House of Commons in this business has reached a depth of hypocrisy that human language cannot describe. You might have had the decency not to talk about distressed areas and not to bring in a damnable Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " no man who was working ought to be expected to work upon a standard of living of less than 32s. a week. If there were a second earner in the household, he ought not to be expected to exist on a standard of life less than 25s., and, if there were a third, 20s. I ask hon. Members: Is that unreasonable? Is 32s. too much? The other day you were all weeping crocodile tears about the Gresford disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.888.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-17", "file": "debates1934-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a02bb2101550b284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of Bills whch are capable of amendment and where, therefore, a misprint could have been corrected by an Amendment put down and moved, and I say that every hon. Member knows of cases where in fact such a misprint has been corrected by the House without Amendment moved or passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-17a.923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "None of us, not the wisest financial Members of this House, not the right hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Home), who is on the boards of nearly all the great companies of this country, could find a safe investment yielding over 10 per cent. per annum, and yet it is assumed in these regulations that the humble working man with savings of about £300 has such an investment at his beck and call.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": "yet. But observe what it leads to. If you are going to have a scale of relief which is higher than the wage scale of a considerable proportion of the workers in a neighbourhood, then you are necessarily driven to supplementing wages out of State funds, because you cannot possibly have one man drawing, let us say, 50s. a week in relief, and another in the same street drawing 45s. for a week's work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": "I do not appreciate the point of the interruption. No relief scale, public assistance, unemployment assistance or anything else can stand if it is higher than the normal rate in the district. It cannot stand unless you have along with it a supplement from State funds to the wages of the lower-paid wage-earners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": " feel convinced it will, the people will profit by it and things will be a great deal better than they were before. Even the \"Daily Herald' said, on 12th December: A definite advance, on the average, in the standard of life of the million unemployed who will receive relief from the Unemployment Assistance Board is promised by the new scales issued last night. That is something to be thankful for.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "r a moment think that a son of theirs who had been unemployed for 12 or 18 months could be kept by them with the necessary food and clothes and with the home amenities which these young people are entitled to receive, on 8s. or 10s. a week? A young man in employment in South Wales, depressed as industry is at the present time, has to pay 20s. a week before he can get full board and lodgings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": "t deal to keep these children at home just before marriage, and prevent them, at a very dangerous interim period, from going out prior to founding a home of their own. There is one other matter in regard to which I am gravely disappointed. According to Regulation VI (2), a final assessment, where special circumstances exist, may be adjusted not only by way of increase but also by way of reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": " upon which you are to base rent, because a man who has four sons does not need the same accommodation as the man who has two adult sons and two adult daughters. That is a point on which I have heard no explanation given. We are told that special consideration will be given to special circumstances. Are we to understand that the having of daughters is going to be considered a special circumstance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1093.7", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": "cate to the driver of the vehicle which is travelling at some speed that there is a crossing there. I would ask my hon. Friend to reconsider the whole position. We have to remember one thing, and that is that if the stud system of crossings is to be a success we must have it uniform all over the country. If we are going to have uniformity we cannot litter the whole country with these orange balls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1093.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1093.7", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": "ere is a crossing there. I would ask my hon. Friend to reconsider the whole position. We have to remember one thing, and that is that if the stud system of crossings is to be a success we must have it uniform all over the country. If we are going to have uniformity we cannot litter the whole country with these orange balls. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because I think they are silly and unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1093.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": "edestrians, will definitely do exactly the reverse. The beacons are not more visible at night than the studs, but pedestrians think they are, and consequently they venture across the road and get knocked down. I hope the Minister in his reply will not ride off, as did the late Minister of Transport, by saying that 150 people are killed each week and that we must make every experiment we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They cannot be seen at night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "er is the allegation which has been made that the beacons are of no use and cannot be seen. They are really the most obvious and conspicuous and the most commented upon, as well as the most used implement which has been brought into the whole system of traffic guidance and control. When hon. Gentlemen get up in the House and say that these things are of no use and cannot be seen, it is ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-12-18", "file": "debates1934-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6072fe89f8283e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What is the other section?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ns killed 42 were pedestrians, so that there has been a reduction of 42 in the deaths of pedestrians in London in the comparable quarters. With regard to other accidents, there has been a reduction of 584 in the corresponding quarters in the number of injuries to pedestrians, although accidents to other classes of persons have increased in the same period. I think that is a fairly good indication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-18a.1120.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1129.7", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREING", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the Yugoslav Government are in friendly relations with this country, and acted as our allies during the last War? Is it not undesirable that questions should be asked in this House making reflections on Yugoslavia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "omfortable life. In every attempt that Governments have made up to now they have miserably failed. There are not hundreds or thousands of our fellows, but millions who are denied the right to a comfortable life through no fault of their own. Faced with that situation, the present Government, whose supporters are eternally twitting the Opposition with the accusation that Labour did no better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "of the uninsured unemployed man more than the Labour party gave to the child of the insured man. What the Government have done is something astounding, and it amazes the whole world. I am grateful to them because they have kept our social services going. There are now unemployed men and women under public assistance who will live at a higher rate than employed men and women all over Europe to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " but it is true, and nobody knows it better than hon. Members on the Opposition Benches. Then they come here and make a hullabaloo about a heartless Government without any feeling for the poor. Hon. Members of the Labour party have made a great point about the younger men having to contribute to the family. May I remind the right hon. Gentleman who is one of my great favourites in the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " become class conscious that they become bitter, and instead of belonging to one class they belong to no class. They are un-classed. Here is what the Labour party brought forward: That it shall be the duty of a father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, husband or child of a poor person, if possessed of sufficient means, to relieve and maintain that person. The Labour party brought that in in 1930.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a mother.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "relieve and maintain that person. The Labour party brought that in in 1930. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Perhaps they have forgotten it, but they cannot get away from it. Not only did the boy in work have to contribute, but the grandfather, grandmother and everybody else had to do so. Hon. Members may have forgotten it, but we have not forgotten it, and I do not believe that the country has forgotten it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "eeks of January and February. Those are the hardest weeks of the year. The fishermen then will just be coming back from what has been, on the whole, a disastrous fishing, and some additional help during that period would be intensely welcome. There were some other matters with which I wished to deal but I gather from certain murmurs I hear that I have already exceeded my allotted time for the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "ations if I thought that they gave justice to some and created injustice for others. Most of the scales are more generous than those now being paid in Bradford and some are slightly worse, but very few. The scales for a family with a large number of children are slightly worse than they are in Bradford. The Parliamentary Secretary put up the case that if that be an injustice it affects only a few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "r. If any one who was in that Parliament in 1834 could walk about our streets and factories to-day he would probably die of an apoplectic fit through fright because of the speed and efficiency of the machinery which is used to-day. And yet the tragedy is that now, 100 years later, we are meeting to consider a far worse problem of poverty than that which they were meeting to consider 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-19", "file": "debates1934-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "bf9eb3d3077f1776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "What better democratic control can we have than the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-19a.1276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-20", "file": "debates1934-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1655905196c00c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1460.6", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1460.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-20", "file": "debates1934-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1655905196c00c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1464.4", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "iment to which my hon. Friends below the Gangway opposite would very cordially subscribe. My hon. Friends on the other side are picking out a few isolated cases. It is all very well for the hon. Member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool (Mr. Logan) to say that no doubt there are exceptions, but Members on that side imply that what they say applies to the whole of the British mercantile marine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1464.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-20", "file": "debates1934-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1655905196c00c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1473.8", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "know that the crew of a ship are signed on by the master and not by the shipowner, but the master obviously acts under instructions. I have here a very typical set of instructions to the master and they are as follows: We expect you and your chief engineer to ship a British crew whenever this is practicable and to give suitable British men preference at all times over those of other nationalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1473.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-20", "file": "debates1934-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1655905196c00c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "rger number of them are engaged in the liner services and not in the tramp section at all? My information is that only a comparatively small number are engaged in tramp ships. The greater number of the coloured seamen are not engaged in connection with ships which will ever come within miles of this subsidy. The hon. Member's information is only partial, it is inaccurate and it is wrongly applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-20a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-21", "file": "debates1934-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "a6d8e7fb3fd2d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-21a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "rt of the financial policy of the Government, and whether he thinks the present money rates are cheap enough. The real test of the efficacy of cheap money is the extent of the demand for it. At present that demand is insufficient, and tends to fall. The banks are gorged with money. I am told that one of the big joint stock banks have over £20,000,000 now on deposit, unused, in its own vaults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-21a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1934-12-21", "file": "debates1934-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "a6d8e7fb3fd2d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-21a.1606.3", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Well, soundly but at the present rate you will not get back to the figure of 1930 for about 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1934-12-21a.1606.3"}