CENSURE MOTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 138, 11 June 1912, Page 7

CENSURE MOTION

MR. ASQUITH PROMISES TO ARRANGE FOR A DATE. (Received June 11, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 10th June. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquifch, replying to Mr. Bonar Lawj Leader of . the Opposition, promised to arrange for an early date ior discussion on a motion of censure in connection with Miv M'EJenna's alleged refusal to protect men desirous of work. [In the House of Commons on Thursday laet, Mi". M'Kenna, Home Secretary, said that in the case of a complaint regarding interference with the working of tho Houlder Thrift steamers, it was not a matter of protecting the men who usually worked at the Purfleefc quays, but was really one of protecting men brought in specially from other places a& strike-breakers-. Hitherto the strikers had behaved with great restraint; but if strike-breakers were brought on the ships a new element would be introduced that was bound to provoke disorder. Replying to a question by Sir Frederick Banbury (Unionist member for City .of . London), Mr. M'Kenna stated that Messrs. Houlder Brothers asked' for protection for free labourers whom they had shipped to Purfleet. He replied that he was instructing the police to send a hundred men, but only if they were intended to protect foodstuffs and assist in suppressing disorders. It was not the work of the police to assist employers in actions intended primarily $o provoke disorder.]