BRITISH POLITICS
UNEMPLOYMENT BILL A GUILLOTINE MOTION LABOUR PROTESTS (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, Ist Dec. The House of Commons, in Committee on the Insurance Bill, with the. Government’* assent reduced the contributions which disabled ex-servicemen are required to make, before, participation in the benefits. Clause five was carried and the. debate adjourned. The Government made a, surprising move by 1 aiding a guillotine, motion on the Unemployment Bill allocating three days for I lie remainder of the Committee stage, a day for the report stage, and a day for the third reading. Mr Shaw, on behalf o>f the Labour party, tallied amendments declining to assent, to the limitation, of the debateon a Bill which will deprive, thousands of insurance benefits. The House is still discussing the liilli clause out of fourteen, though six days have already been spent in Committee.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 2
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