UPSETTING TACTICS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 11

UPSETTING TACTICS.

LABORITES’ NEW OBSTRUCTION. IN BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS. THIRTEEN MEMBERS SUSPENDED. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received April 16, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 15. Tn (lie House of Commons an cxiinordinary situation developed at 6 o'clock in.the morning, after an allnight debate in Committee of the House, on the Economy Bill,, resulting in the suspension of .13 Laborites.

Owing to the invention of an entirely new method of obstruction, Messrs. Lnnsbury, Wheatley, and eleven others, in a division on the Labor motion* to adjourn tlie debate, remained in-the ayes lobby, joking, and singing lor : oyer half-an-hour, delaying the whole-business. Ministers and the Chairman lengthily consulted, and finally called the Speaker from bed.

Ah’. Neville Chamberlain, amid a Labor uproar, moved, the suspension of the thirteen Laborites.

Tho Labor. Opposition thereupon adopted The same tactics, but - after another half-hour’s delay .the Speaker ordered the tellers to report, the.figures showing the motion to he carried by 163 t 0,76; whereupon the thirteen were ordered to withdraw, and business was resumed. The House, of-Commons rose at 9 o’clock this morning, after sitting- over--18 hours. Up to the present it has passed, four clauses of the Economy Bill in 35 hours’. Parliamentary time. and>;there are 21 clauses, besides four schedules. The Opposition made two further attempts at obstruction in the samp manner, hut the Speaker announced that lip would devise procedure to deal with unusual circumstances, and would consult the Premier with a view to amending the Standing Orders. Mr. LuTisbury, interviewed regarding the suspensions, alleged that Mr. Neville Chamberlain and his' colleagues had adopted a dictatorial, contemptuous and insolent method, and particularly coil):-, plained of Air. Chamberlain’s action in securing the closure on Mr. Wheatley in, the middle of a brilliant speech, in which ho denounced the Economy Bill as robbery of tho working class insurance funds in order t-o benefit the rich.