DEBATE IN COMMONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 30 May 1930, Page 5

DEBATE IN COMMONS

A GOVERNMENT VICTORY

LIBERALS ABSTAIN FROAI VOTING

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, 28th May. In the House of Commons, Mr Lloyd George congratulated Sir Oswald Mosley on his poworful speccb. The Chancellor of the Excliequor need not be afraid about his conversion loan. If the country engaged in military operations it could raise thousands of millions —indeed, the country was now spending a hundred million per year on unemployment. He agreed that the problem should not he treated as a party matter. Mr Churchill favoured a wisely extended policy of safeguarding or tariff for revenue, particularly on the more highly finished forms of manufacture. The. real permanent hope of industry lay in reconstruction, re-equipment, and rationalisation, whicli would make the factories more efficient, and give a fair chance to export markets. It would be sheer madness to raise two hundred millions for unemployment without first formulating definite Schemes.

When the division was taken Mr J. Marton, Mr D. Kirkwood Mr A. Fenner-Brockway, Mr G. Buchanan and Air G. Stephen remained, seated. Most of the Liberals also abstained from voting. The majority of 29 was just about what had been expected. The Government was never in any sense in danger during the debate. There was general agreement that Sir Oswald Mosley’s speech was a personal triumph.