Mr Albert Martin: 76. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if his attention has been called to the inquiry now being held at the Shire Hall, Chelmsford, with a view to the closing of a number of Essex County Council roads to char-à-bane traffic; is he aware that if this traffic is forbidden it will cause hardship and loss to many classes of persons; and will he, before consenting to...
Mr Albert Martin: 64. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that a great deal of the unrest amongst the working classes is due to falling wages and the exorbitant price of beer; and whether he will seriously consider in his Budget proposals the advisability of reducing the duty on the barrel of beer by 50 per cent.?
Mr Albert Martin: Am I to understand from the answer that the Government are really trying to bring about prohibition in an indirect way?
Mr Albert Martin: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Norfolk farmers have been offered 5d. per gallon net for their milk?
Mr Albert Martin: 102. asked the President of the Board of Education how many teachers who refused the terms of the 1898 Act are now enjoying the greatly improved benefits of the 1918 Act?
Mr Albert Martin: 107. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that for equivalent service, and even for shorter service, the pension under the Teachers (Superannuation) Act of 1918 ranges from three times to eight times the pension under the Acts of 1898 and 1912; and why such exceptionally large increases were deemed necessary?
Mr Albert Martin: 108. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that applications for extension of service made by some teachers on reaching the age limit, 65, during the two years ended 31st March, 1919, were granted, and that the applicants were thus made eligible for and admitted to the benefits of the New Teachers (Superanuation) Act of 1918, while applications for extension made...
Mr Albert Martin: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that workmen's tickets have increased nearly 300 per cent. and that wages are now corning down to nearly pre-War?
Mr Albert Martin: 44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, having regard to the fact that the cost of railway season tickets as an essential incident to earning a livelihood presses heavily upon the less wealthy classes and restricts the usefulness of housing developments at a distance from business centres, he will consider the possibility of allowing such cost to count for abatement of Income Tax...
Mr Albert Martin: Am I to understand that the hon. Gentleman thinks it less just to give freedom from Income Tax in respect of travelling expenses than to allow travelling expenses to Members of this House?
Mr Albert Martin: asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has received any reply to his representations regarding the decree of the French Government prohibiting the importation of British silk goods into France; whether he is aware that serious hardship is being inflicted on over 1,300 workpeople in Great Yarmouth, Norwich, Braintree, Halstead, Frome, and Bocking, including ex-soldiers; and if he is...
Mr Albert Martin: 7. asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been drawn to the hardship inflicted on English workpeople caused by the French Government decrees of 25th April placing an embargo on English crêpe, practically the only English silk fabric imported into France, with the result that the Essex silk winding mills are running short time and are having to close on Saturdays and...
Mr Albert Martin: 48. asked the Prime Minister whether he will have a Clause inserted in the new Licensing Bill that 75 per cent. of all employés engaged in hotels and restaurants holding Excise licences must be British-born?
Mr Albert Martin: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this would be a means of finding employment for thousands of demobilised soldiers and sailors?
Mr Albert Martin: 55. asked the Prime Minister whether he can offer any hope of compensation for injuries to person or property of civilians caused by air raids?
Mr Albert Martin: 24. asked if the special constables throughout the country may be placed upon an equality with those in the Metropolitan area and the same recognition given to them as is proposed for those who have undertaken duties in the London area?
Mr Albert Martin: 13. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will allocate a large portion of the Fleet to the Thames in connection with the prospective review?
Mr Albert Martin: 13. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that unrest and dissatisfaction exists in the Metro- politan Police force, largely due to inequality in the hours of service; that, while police constables in some districts are on duty eight hours a day, inspectors and station sergeants are on duty for twelve hours a day; and whether he can give an assurance to take such steps as may be...
Mr Albert Martin: 13. asked the Pensions Minister whether he will take steps to make a man's pension statutory when he has been before three medical boards and still found to be suffering from the disability for which he was discharged?
