Mr Albert Hillary: Those who, in the early part of this year, heard the statement so often made by Conservatives that the Liberals had brought National ruin, when they put the Labour party into office, may be wondering what they are feeling like to-day in view of the fact that they have compelled the wild Socialist party to accept their Amendments. The Bill in its present form is nothing else than exactly what...
Mr Albert Hillary: But it was the Minister himself and the Parliamentary Secretary who gave way to opposition. It is all very well to round on us, and say we destroyed the Bill. The fact is that if you had retained the central board you would never have come to agreement with the party opposite. They would never have come to terms with you.
Mr Albert Hillary: I am sorry. I only want to say, in conclusion, while I shall vote for the Bill, which I hope will fulfil some of the pious wishes the Minister, in particular, and some of his followers have expressed, I do so regretting that the Labour Government have not offered, at any rate, something to these poor people, who are actually begging for bread, and have not done something better than this...
Mr Albert Hillary: I should also like to make a plea in the interest of individuals who have built houses expecting that they would have the subsidy. There are many cases. I have one case particularly in mind where there was any amount of evidence that the local authority gave the person to understand that he was on safe lines in going ahead with his building. It is not only unjust, but it is discreditable to...
Mr Albert Hillary: It affords me very great pleasure to hear the hon. Member for the Drake Division (Sir A. S. Benn). It came very strangely to manufacturers listening to the speech that we had from the hon. Member on the Labour benches, who was instructing us and giving us some idea of the man who knows nothing about the manufacturer's difficulty, and telling us how we ought to run his businesses. The idea of...
Mr Albert Hillary: Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether he agrees that taking the figures of 1913 and the figures of 1923 that our export trade is somewhere about £100,000,000 short?
Mr Albert Hillary: 44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what action the Government has taken, or intends to take, in view of the refusal of the German Government to refund to German exporters the amount of the charge levied under the German Reparation (Recovery) Act?
Mr Albert Hillary: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the number of cases coming before the mixed arbitral tribunal and the consequent delay in dealing with many claims, he will consider the advisability of setting up other tribunals, so that the cases may be more speedily disposed of?
