ADDRESS IN REPLY

Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 7

ADDRESS IN REPLY

COMMONS DEBATE LABOUR AMENDMENT REJECTED UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM (Voiced Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, November 12. In the House of Commons the debate was resumed on Mr J. R. Clynes’s unemployment amendment to the Address-in-Reply. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said the Government had broken every pledge regarding unemployment and was now trying to flounder from the morass it had created. Mr Churchill talked a lot about migration, but what had been done in four years had been wasted. The Government acted as though unemployment pressure did not exist; then, at the last minute, outlined a programme of public works that was ineffective, migration promises that were not thought out and transfer proposals that were most inadequate. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, replying to Mr Macdonald, said the latter had not offered a single suggestion that would give a day’s work to one unemployed man. He denied that the Government was proposing to use the dominions as a .dumping ground for unemployables. It was trying to help capable workers to find new homes overseas. Lord Lovat had done gr?at work in Canada. The fact that 33,000 migrants had established homes last year showed there were possibilities. The outlook was improving; relations between capital and labour were better and |>eace at home and abroad seemed secure. Balanced budgets, stabilized currency and wealth were being re-created and world trade ought shortly to be revived. Mr Clynes’s amendment was rejected by 321 votes to 151.—Australian Press Association—United Service.