ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE.
THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION. LONDON, January 31. Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald's amendment to the Address-in-Reply, regretting the absence from the Speech of any promise to deal legislatively with the unemployed question, was negatived by 195 to 146. The minority included all the Labourites and all the Nationalists, together with a few Unionist-Liberals. Many Liberals abstained from voting. Several newspapers staite that many Unionists voted with tile minority. Mr John Burns, in attacking the .motion, said that some of the aims of Socialism were Utopian. He mentioned incidentally that Mr Asquith's Old-age Pension Bill would provide for a million people. Mr Macdonald, when interviewed on the result of the division, said that it woukP encourage the Labour party to proceed with its Unemployed Bill. February 1. The minority in favour of Mr Macdonald's amendment comprised 40 Labourites, 25 Liberals, 56 Nationalists and Socialists, and 24 Unionists.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 19
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