POOLING IDEAS

Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 7

POOLING IDEAS

NON-PARTY DEBATE BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION COMMONS DISCUSSION (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 31. Great interest is being taken in the forthcoming non-party debate on unemployment in the House of Commons. The motion on which the debate will take place is not yet determined, but it will be of a non-committal character, and there is no desire by the Opposition to regard it as a vote of censure. The sole object is that members of all parties should pool their ideas for methods of helping to deal with unemployment. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilmour informed Mr G. Lansbury that 8000 people wore present at the Trafalgar Square demonstration on Sunday, including a large number of spectators, despite a police appeal to the public not to attend such gatherings. The members of one contingent were searched and four were arrested for carrying weapons. An Independent Labour member, Mr J. McGovern, who intended to present a petition in the House of Commons asking leave for a deputation of unemployed marchers now in London to be received at the bar of the House, stated in the House of Commons that the organizers of the marchers refused to provide a deputation for this purpose. He added that although the co-opera-tion of the Independent Labour Party had been rejected, they would still continue in their own way to work on behalf of this unfortunate section of society. The leaders of the unemployed marchers movement desire to present a large petition to Parliament asking for the withdrawal of the “means test” and the restoration of economy cuts, at the same time persuading Parliament by its own efforts to receive a deputation at the bar of the House. THREAT OF UNEMPLOYED. (Rec. 7.10 p.m.) London, November 1. Mr J. McGovern said in the House of Commons that he had been informed that the council of the unemployed workers’ movement had decided to rely on their mass strength to force Parliament to allow their deputation to appear at the bar of the House.