The Archive · 1926

Sir Arthur Steel Maitland

Minister of Labour, declared thi the tone of Mr. Macdonald's speech was most regrettable. He emphasized that the Government were ready to net ay soon as one side showed willingness to make a real ly substantial proposal, Mr. Herbert Wragg, Conservative member for the Helper Division of Derbyshire, suggested the appointment of an independent arbitrator in the person of Sir Herbert Samuel Hendlam (Conservative) that" it was time that new negotiators were chosen by both sides to enable them to get together as they might easily do seeing that the differences were not s0 great.

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