THE HOUSE IMPRESSED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 1, 1 July 1925, Page 5

THE HOUSE IMPRESSED

.VIGOROUS LABOUR CRITICISM.

bUSTItUUH-NIW ZMUND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 30th June. ; The debate in the House of Commons showed that the serioi'eness of the unemployment problem had impressed members, though no £arty professed to offer an effective remedy. The tone of Mr. Mac Donald's speech was mainly accusatory. He said that Capitalism was in the dock and the Government beside it.

Mr. Baldwin read most of his speech i from typewritten foolscap. He urged that 90 per cent, of the employable population was working. It was essential that tho country should not get rattled. He insisted that there were strict limit* to what Parliament could do to help industry. Mr. Philip Snowden, in a hard-hitting speech, described Mr. Baldwin's remarks as a string of platitudinous generalities. | There was not a single constructive prpi posal. The unemployed were not going to be fed on copybook maxims. Commercial men and industrialists were losing heart. During Juno 365 representative securities had shrunk by forty-e:ght millions steiling on the Stock Exchange. ■ An ints resting speech was delivered by I Captain F. E. Gutst, the ex-Liberal, who urged that a wide development of ImI penal preference was the .only remedy | for unemployment. "The Dominions, ' he declared, "can easily produce 140 million pounds' worth of food we now buy from foreigners. We should create freetrade within the Empire, with a high tariff wall against the world. The rich unpopulated areas of the Dominions would then be developed and an opening afforded for our surplus population." Mr. Lloyd George was chiefly concerned in defending' the unemployment policy of the Coalition Government, Sir Alfred Mond urged land reclama-. tion and Empire development. The debate closed amid a noisy scene, the Clydesiders, headed by Mr. J. Maxton, shouting down the Minister of Lab- 1 pur.' : ■'.'■'■,■. Replying on behalf of the Govern- l merit, Sir A. Steel-Maitland, Minister of .Labour, argued that it was essential to expand ; internal production. For this i reason the Government was pressing on the migration schemes. '•