UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19467, 14 November 1928, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT.

LABOUR AMENDMENT.

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.

(united mess association—bi- klectbic telegraph—copyhight.) (Received November 13th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. In the House of Commons the debate was resumed on the Labour amendment to the Address-in-Reply referring to unemployment moved by Mr J. R. Clynes, regretting that although the Government had been in office for four years the country was burdened with unemployment in a more acute form and the proposals in the King's Speech were inadequate to meet the industrial situation.

Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, the Labour leader, said that the Government had broken every pledge regarding unemployment, and was now trying to flounder from the morass it had created. Mr Churchill talked a lot about migration, but what had been done in four years had been wasted. The Government acted as though unemployment pressure did not exist, and then at the last minute outlined a programme of public works that was ineffective, migration promises that were not thought out, and transfer proposals that were most inadequate. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, replying to Mr MacDonald, said that the latter had not offered a single suggestion that would give a day's work to one unemployed man. Unemployment had declined monthly until the General Strike. He denied that the Government was proposing to use the Dominions as a lumping ground for unemployables. It was trying to help capable workers to find new homes overseas. Lord Lovat had done great work in Canada. The fact that 53,000 migrants had established their homes there last year showed that there were great possibilities. The outlook was improving. Relations between Capital and" Labour were better, and peace at home and abroad seemed secure. Balanced Budgets, stabilised currency; and wealth were being re-created and world trade ought shortly to be revived. Mr Clynes ! s amendment was rejected by 321 votes to 151. —Australian Press Association, United Service.