BRITISH DYE INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9

BRITISH DYE INDUSTRY

THE SAFEGUARDING ACT HOUSE OF LORDS AMEHOMEKT REJECTED BY COMMONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 17. There was a crpwded attendance in the House of Commons during the debate on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, which must be passed before the rising of the House on December 19. Mr William Graham (president of the Board of Trade) surprised the House by moving to disagree with the House of Lords amendment, which would continue the Dyestuffs Act for another year. The House seethed with excitement as the division hour approached. Mr Graham’s motion was carried by 244 votes to 238. Fifteen Liberals voted with the Conservatives, and seven Labour including Mr Oliver Baldwin and Misses Jennie Lee and Ellen Wilkinson, did not vote. [ln the Hause of Lords a motion was passed, by eighty-seven votes to thirteen, to include the Dyestuffs Act in the schedule of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill for the purpose of ensuring that the Act will remain in operation foi a further twelve months instead of lapsing next month in accordance with the Government’s decision. The Marquess of Salisbury urged that continuance of the Dyestuffs Act was vital to the research work which had been done by dyemakers. Lord Parmoor said that the Government’s desire that the measure should lapse was due to the fact that it operated to the advantage of the textile industry. The dyemakers, who had established their industry during the last ten years, were now in a position to face world competition successfully.] GOVERNMENT’S DIFFICULTY. LONDON, December IS. The * Daily Telegraph’s ’ political correspondent learns, that the House of Lords intends to insist on the Dyestuffs Act Amendment, and ho expresses the opinion that it will be difficult for the Government, in view of the significance of the division, further to resist when the Bill is returned from -the House of Lords, and will allow tne amendment to be reinserted. LORDS INSIST ON AMENDMENT. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 18. (Received December 19, at noon.) The House of Lords insisted, without a division, upon its amendment to the Dyestuffs Act, which the House of Commons rejected. The measure now reverts to the House of Commons. It is probable that a compromise will be reached as a further rejection of the Lord’s amendment would jeopardise other measures, such as the Wireless Telegraphy Act and the coal mines minimum wage, which is included in the schedule of tho Continuance Bill.