UNEMPLOYMENT DEBATE
SCENES IN COMMONS
Iby CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON. July 24. I In iho House of Commons, Captain H. Margesson, for the Government, moved the closure of the. unemployment debate, amid Labour shouts of “Gag”! “Baby Starvers"! These were followed by the singing of “The Red Flag.”
I Meanwhile forty or fifty unemployjed in the central lobby of the House, who had been interviewing Members of .the House of Commons, started a chorus, “Down With the Means Test!” The police appeared and shepherded the unemployed outside. The closure was carried bv 371 votes to 163. I he Labour members' amendments to the Government proposals were do-1 feated by 368 to IG3, and bv 36] ioi 140. j The new regulations wore approved by 357 votes to 155. The House rose after midnight, having been sitting for over thirty-two hours.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1936, Page 6
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