BRITISH COAL MINES

Evening Star, Issue 20361, 18 December 1929, Page 13

BRITISH COAL MINES

GOVERNMENT PUSHING OH WITH BILL CONSERVATIVE HOSTILITY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 17. In the House of Conn ms Mr Ramsay MacDonald said he could not accept advice of the Federation of British Industries to postpone the second reading of tho Coal Bill. The Conservative Party to-night gave notice for a straight-out motion for rejection of tho Bill. MR CHURCHILL’S PUNGENT CRITICISM. LONDON, December 17. If the Labour Party’ is allowed to have its way this powerful country will bo converted into a vast soup kitchen,” said Mr Winston Churchill, in a speech at a Conservative lunch in Jsmdon. “The House of Commons today is voting upon more and better doles, and to-morrow it will consider a plan for dearer coal in order to placate tho miners, who hold the Government in their hands. ‘ Tired Tim ’ and ‘ Wearly Willie ’ will go on smoking their pipes until a job is brought to them like a titbit on a plate. The country must pay the prjee for all this. America, Germany, and France are reducing taxation in order to improve their world trading capacity, but the British Government has committed the country to a further expenditure of £20,000,000.”