BRITISH GOVERNMENT
CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 24. In the House of Commons Opposition speakers based a vote of censure on the continuance of a high rate of unemployment, alleging that the tariff policy was calculated to maintain unemployment. Sir Henry Betterton (Minister of Labour), replying to the debate, said that he had never heard a motion of censure so hollow or so unreal. The production of the country was increasing after the decline in 1931, and it now had recovered the whole ground lost last year. Whereas unemployment had increased under Labour, it had decreased under the National Government,, which was providing £100,000,000 a year for the relief of unemployment.
The censure motion was defeated by 446 votes to 47.
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Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 12
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