Mr Cecil Pike: Is it not the fact that these amalgamations have created greater efficiency in production and distribution?
Mr Cecil Pike: Will the hon. Member tell the Committee, because it is very important to the steel industry, what justification he has for stating that the price of steel will rise?
Mr Cecil Pike: Can the hon. Member say how long after the actual wound was inflicted the doctor appointed examined the man, and what was the difference in the period between one examination and the other?
Mr Cecil Pike: Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind the extra expense to which poor households are put by the changing of housing accommodation?
Mr Cecil Pike: For months, even years, we have all attempted to impress upon the Government the necessity for the Board of Trade to inspire, either by word or deed, all industrialists to do whatever they can by way of improving plant, increasing efficiency, cutting down overhead costs and everything else connected with industry in order to bring more trade to the country. None have been more forcible in...
Mr Cecil Pike: The deputy-leader of the Opposition shakes his head. If he does not believe that himself, perhaps he will believe his own leader, who, last Friday, in this House said: We have to live in a very imperfect world, and we have to do the best we can in those conditions. We are trying very hard to convert this country to Socialism. We may never be able to do it, and therefore, I expect the hon....
Mr Cecil Pike: But if tariffs are the only method by which you can overcome this pernicious free competition and these free imports, it is obviously logical that that is the machinery, until you devise something different, that must be adopted in order to prevent the growth of such competition. I am convinced that even if the hon. Member in this House says that he is not in favour of tariffs he will not...
Mr Cecil Pike: Can the hon. and gallant Member say whether the reduction in the figures is due to the operation of the Coal Mines Act?
Mr Cecil Pike: Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman convey to his right hon. Friend the fact that the Leader of the Opposition has now declared in favour of tariffs where competition is adverse to the interests of the British workman?
Mr Cecil Pike: Can the hon. Member say what is the cause of the increase in the chromium plating figures?
Mr Cecil Pike: You voted against it.
Mr Cecil Pike: I am sorry that the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) is not in his place, because I consider that he was guilty of a gross misrepresentation of the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, in that, while he quoted certain points from the report, he omitted to give the analysis of the inspector explaining those points. I am glad to see that the hon. Member...
Mr Cecil Pike: That he either did know and was not telling the truth, or that he had not read the report and had no justification for his statement. If the hon. Member, instead of looking at this issue through political spectacles, would look at it through the sincere spectacles which he claims to wear, it would be much fairer to the Home Office. The speech of the Home Secretary was an excellent survey of...
Mr Cecil Pike: I take it in view of that Ruling that I shall also be entitled to submit to the Committee that I ask these questions—
Mr Cecil Pike: If the hon. Member was there I can understand the disturbances. I merely gave the case of West Toxteth because last year the House spent a whole day in discussing how to prevent such occurrences at public meetings and specific pledges were given that something would be done in conjunction with the Home Office by the leaders of all parties in this House to bring such a calamitous condition of...
Mr Cecil Pike: As my argument has served its purpose I will leave it where it is. I had anticipated that hon. Members on the Opposition benches would have raised the question before I did. Having lost the opportunity and lost the game I hope they will not grumble any more. I come back to a question of police methods in relation to the prevention of crime which I referred to earlier in my speech. In this...
Mr Cecil Pike: No, but in Sheffield. When I asked the late Home Secretary whether his attention had been called to the summing up of the judge in the case the right hon. Gentleman said the information which had reached him was such that he was calling for the full papers in the case and would inform me later whether any action on his part was called for. I take it that I shall be justified in going a little...
Mr Cecil Pike: I agree with every word that the hon. Member says. I only disagree when the police perform duties which Parliament has not sanctioned.
Mr Cecil Pike: Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that Charles Peace would not have escaped if he had been handcuffed?
Mr Cecil Pike: In these medical examinations, is the actual ultimate earning capacity of the man taken into consideration as a primary issue?
