BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 11

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY ATTACKED BY LABOUR LEADER (British-Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 9. Resuming the debate,on the Labour amendment to the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, Major Attlee said his party held that the sickness of the world to-day was due far more to economic than political .causes, and challenged the whole position on which

the, Government stood. There was no indication in the foreign policy that the Government was thinking of the grave' perils facing the world or of how to remove the growing sense of fear, and in home affairs there was the same lack of a co-ordinated plan or policy. The Government had no proposals for dealing with the ’paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. Defending the Government policy, the Attorney-General ■ (Sir Thomas Inskip) said there were more people in employment than ever before. The Government, was not idle.’in -finding new trade channels for distressed areas. In regard to unemployment allowances and the means test, Sir Thomas Inskip said much information had become available from the working of the present^system, and the Government would bring forward proposals at an early date. _ He declared that by the proposed unification of mining Royalties the Government meant the purchase of royalties by the State, involving a change from ownership and control by some 4,000 private persons to single ownership and control by the State in the interests of the community. AMENDMENT DEFEATED. LONDON, December 9. The Labour amendment, condemning the failure of the King’s Speech to indicate an effective peace policy, a reduction of armaments, measures to deal with unemployment, miners’ claims, and other matters, was defeated by 382 votes to 140.