BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 4

BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT

LABOUR ASSAULT OH GOVERNFdEHT AMENDMENT DEFEATED Proas Aa* ociation —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 12. The debate uu Mr J. R. Glyues’s unemployment amendment to the Addrcss-in-Reply was resumed in the Mouse of Commons to-day. Mr Ramsay MacDonald said that tho 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. Tho Government acted as though unemployment pressure did nob exist, then at the last minute outlined a .programme of public works that was ineffective, migration promises that wore not thought out, and transfer proposals that were most inadequate. Sir L. Worthington-Evans, replying to Mr MacDonald, said that the latter had not offered n single suggestion that would give a day’s work to one unemployed man. 'Unemployment had declined every month until tho general strike occurred. Ho denied that the Government was proposing to use tho dominions as a dumping ground for “ unomployahlos ”; it was trying to help capable workers to find new homes overseas. Lord Lovat had done great work in Canada, and tho fact that mi,ooo migrants had established homes there last year showed that there were groat possibilities and the outlook was improving. The relations between Capital and Labour were hotter, and peace at Homo and abroad seemed secure. The nations had balanced their Budgets and had stabilised their currencies. Wealth was being recreated, and world trade should shortly he revived, . Mr Clynes’s amendment was rejected by 321 to 151.—Australian Press Asso-ciation-United Service.

[Mr J. 11. (Jlynes (on behalf of tho Labour Party) moved an amendment regretting that, although the Government had had four years of office, the country was burdened with unemployment in a most acute form. He said that appalling conditions prevailed in many mining areas, and the proposals outlined in tho King’s Speech were utterly inadequate to meet tho existing industrial situation.]