HUNGER MARCHERS
Not Permitted to Plead at Bar of Commons
MR. BALDWIN’S REASONS
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received November 12, 8.5 p.m.) London, November 11. The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, in the House of Commons explained why he would not allow the hunger marchers to come to the Bar of the House. He said if this request were granted every organised body would be able in future to demand to see the Government in the House, and elements seeking to make trouble would be alert to use the opening thus made. “Though I think my own responsibilities will be ended by then, I ,see an anxious time for Mr. Attlee (Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party) when as Prime Minister or a Minister in a Labour Government he might have to face not a few hundreds, but vast mobs which, by the implicit threat of force, may try to exercise control of the Government. which they failed to get in the ballot. That is the real danger when the door is opened. If the pitch is to be queered, let it be queered by men who will succeed me. Let them take a responsibility which I cannot and do not take,” said Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Attlee’s motion to admit the hunger marchers to the House was defeated by 237 votes to 119.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 9
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