Mr, Baldwin's Silence: Question of Unemployment of Miners London, Dee. 7. acevsation that the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, by his silence! Insultel the Opposition on Nove her 16 was made in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, the Leader of the Op-Position, in moving a Labour motion oot conspire charging the with neglecting question and unemployment among miners and denianding immediate action secure efficient organization of the! industry to deal with the amba passing condition, of local relief smuthorities and treatment of the vast numbers of miners on short time or cut of work.
Mr. Baldwin followed Mr.
Macdonald. He resented the suggestion that he had disregarded the Gecencics of Parliamentary life acd pointed out the demands on the Premier's time owing to the increas-_ ing volume of Parliamentary we 'Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, acknow-Jedging the difficulties of' the coal industry, deprecated the aggravation of those diticulties. He showed statistically there has been an increase in the export trade though prices had not been satisfactory. while unemployment in mines ud: decreased by 14,000 in two years. The Eight Hour Bill had reduced working costs to an average of] 2/84. per ton of coal.
The House rejected Mr, Macdonald's motion of censure by 347 votes 10 142—Reuter,
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