Labour's Vote of Censure Defeated in Commons London, July 24.
In the House of Commons to-day the leader of the Labour Party, the Rt. Hon. J, Ramsay MacDonald, moved a vote of censure against the Government, viewing with grave concern the growing volume of unemployment, deploring the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the measures taken to deal with the problem, the failure of the Government to relieve the plight of many' poverty-stricken areas and very severely condemning the attitude of the Government to those suffering privation as a consequence of the Industrial depression.
Mr, Ramsay MacDonald declared [that the nation had not only to fage ordinary unemployment but, besides, there were 200,000 miners permanently and hopelessly out of work, who, until death, would have either to live on the dole or on charity.
The Government, he proceeded, Iliad gone on two fundamental wrong assumptions, namely, that trade was going to improve and that @ reduction of wages and an increase of working hours were going to improve production.
'The Premier, Mr, Stanely Baldwin, said that' the trade set-back [was mainly confined to the great! staple industries, principally pool Jand cotton. The' country's general trade had' been maintained. 'The unemployment trouble was serious, but was local and confined. It fought to be possible for the growing Prosperity in other areas in the Midlands' and the South of England, to afford some relief to the depressed areas. England had had to face a horrible and difficult pro-bern, but he did not believe that the country was played out or was going to be played out.
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