TRAGEDY OF UNEMPLOYED
THEME OF THE DEBATE JN
PARLIAMENT
PEACE IN EUROPE THE KEY.
(ONITBD PESSS ASSOCIATION—COHRISHI.) (AOSTEALIAN - NEW ZBAIjAKD CASH ABBOCIAMOK.) (Received 24th November, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd November. The Address-in-Beply debate has opened in the House o£ Commons, the motion being moved by Mr. Brass, member for Clitheroe, and seconded by Mr. Margesson, member for Upton.
Mr. Brass, referring to unemployment, said the only hope of improvement lay in the establishment of real peace in Europe. It was essential to Britain's properrty that Central Europe should be set on. its feet.
Mtr. Margeseon. emphasised the fact that unemployment is the most pressing problem of the day, and expressed the hope thai further investigation would be made with a view to securing better relations between Labour and Capital. Mr. Ramsay MacDona-ld, Leader o^ the Labour Party, eaid the references in the Address to the subject were profoundly unsatisfactory to the Labour Party. There was no sense of proportion, and no real appreciation of ih« -terrible tragery of it al). He could not promise the Premier tranquillity. The Labour Party mast do its Tbest to state the case for the unemployed. .. . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1922, Page 7
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191TRAGEDY OF UNEMPLOYED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1922, Page 7
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