DEBATE IN COMMONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 5

DEBATE IN COMMONS

POSITION OF GOVERNMENT >. DEFEAT UNLIKELY ’ / (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 28th May. A series of meetings were held in the House of Commons as a preliminary to to-day’s division on unemployment. The Government’s defeat is now considered unlikely. Fifteen members of the Labour who did not support the Government last week, after a prolonged discussion decided to await a Ministerial statement before choosing their line of action. GOVERNMENT VICTORY MAJORITY OF 29 (Received 29th May, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, 28th May. The debate in the House of Commons on unemployment ended in the defeat of an adverse amendment moved by Mr Baldwin by 270 to 241. Mr MacDonald, in appealing for the co-operation of -all parties to expedite unemployment schemes, emphasised that the Government could not join in safeguarding. Sir Oswald Mosley said that in order to grapple with unemployment it was necessary to have a revolution in the machinery of government. The Government bound itself largely to nationalisation, but this would not be a cure nor would the expansion of exports money which the Government was now providing to meet unemployment. This was scarcely more than the programme of the late Conservative Government.