Minister, at the end of question time presented a message from the Kins: declaring a state of emergency and moved that a humble address presented to His Majesty. thanki for the message. The Labour: members insisted upon a division, but the address was carried by 308 votes to 108, Commander Eyres-Monsel_moved adjournment whereupon Mr. Baldwin, who received an ovation from the Ministerialists, made a statement. The Premier declared that the occasion was one of the gravest whereon the House had ever met. He reviewed the dif culties of the coal industry which, he said, were largely due to its own extraordinary machinery, for the adjustment of wages. That machinery required radical overhaul-
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