'MORE AND BETTER BOLES’

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1929, Page 9

'MORE AND BETTER BOLES’

MR. CHURCHILL CRITICISES

BRITISH HOUSE PASSED BILL COAL BILL CONTROVERSY By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. London, Dec. 16. The Unemployment Insurance Bill has passed the third reading in the House of Commons by 273 votes to 199. "England will be converted into a vast soup kitchen,” said Mr. Winston' Churchill in a speech at a Conservative lunch in London. “The House of Commons to-day is voting upon more and better doles and to-morrow will consider a jolly plan for dearer coal in order to placate the miners, who hold the Government in their hands. Tired Tim and Weary Willie will go on smoking their pipes -until a job is brought to them like a tit-bit on a plate. “The country must pay the price for ■ all this. . America, Germany anl France are reducing taxation in order to improve their world trading capacity, but the British Government has committed the country to a further expenditure of £20,000,000.”

In the House of Commons to-day Mr. MacDonald said he could not accept the Federation of British Industry’s advice to postpone the second reading of the Coal Bill. The Conservative Party tonight gave notice of a straight-out motion for the rejection of the Bill.