Mr John Jones: They want to close them all bar the ones nearest to where they live.
Mr John Jones: They do not have the opportunity.
Mr John Jones: I want to be very brief, but I want to ask the Minister one or two pertinent questions. I understand that the right hon. Gentleman is a very ardent cyclist, who, fed up with the rush and turmoil of London traffic, uses a cycle to get to and from his place of work. Some of us are also fed up with the rush and turmoil of industry, and, perhaps, the rush and turmoil of this House, and would like...
Mr John Jones: That is a new term. In any case, it is not a job that I would want.
Mr John Jones: Although part of the commercial side is of great value, it is quite true that the waterways must be kept navigable so as to clean the weeds and to keep them from silting up and so that people are able to use them. There are a number of other uses for the water, such as for cattle and for farming, for industry, and a thousand and one things, but I am more particularly concerned with all...
Mr John Jones: I will not talk about the Ship Canal; I have talked about that before. That stinking morass is navigable but not fishable. That is all the more reason why men who live in the vicinity of my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central, who lives near the Canal, and who have to put up with the stench and stink all the week think they have a right to get a little peace on the canal banks...
Mr John Jones: Liberace.
Mr John Jones: He said "hell."
Mr John Jones: Can the hon. Member tell the House who made the goods? They did not make themselves and the gentleman whose name has been mentioned did not make them. Can we be told what textile factory did make them and under whose direction and ownership that factory is?
Mr John Jones: The hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Burden) made a better finish to his speech than a start. He said exactly what needs to be said. Industrialists in this country must realise that they are in keen competition with the rest of the world. The hon. Member for Louth (Mr. C. Osborne) should be congratulated on two things. He has brought to the notice of the House the need for intensive thought on...
Mr John Jones: I am glad the hon. Member tells us that there was a strike in the shipbuilding industry. If the people who own the shipbuilding industry did away with the causes of strikes they would not happen. No one could have been more ready to admit restrictive practices in the trade unions than I have. No one has been taken to task more than I have for talking about their misdeeds, but people who have...
Mr John Jones: I am sorry, I have not time to give way. I promised to end my speech in a short time. The hon. Member can ask me a question outside later and I will give him to two o'clock in the morning to do so. When I talked about a three-shift system they believed the idea was made, but the Japanese textile workers are running around on roller skates with a belly full of rice as a reward. Like those in...
Mr John Jones: On a point of order. I look upon you Sir Gordon, being Chairman of Ways and Means, as the foreman in charge of these proceedings. Here we have a gang of men wishing to go to work. We have spent 35 minutes listening to the foreman in charge telling us what we may not do. That is unusual in Britain where the men usually tell the foreman what they will not do. Can you tell us by what means the...
Mr John Jones: The hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Crowder) should realise that a driver or anybody who is off sick, when these charges will be applied, would be earning nothing.
Mr John Jones: I rise as an individual who has never yet, in fifteen and a half years in this House, opened that well-known book known as Erskine May. I do not want to go into all the things that happened in regard to the constitutional procedure concerning the conduct of this House. Sir Walter Citrine's book on good chairmanship was enough for me, and my chairmanship and knowledge of the conduct of affairs...
Mr John Jones: Ford shares?
Mr John Jones: Mr. Jack Jones (Rotherham) rose——
Mr John Jones: I am trying to help the hon. Gentleman. Will he tell us how he managed about the currency and exchange rates?
Mr John Jones: Can the hon. Gentleman tell the House why there is no reference whatever in the White Paper to public moneys now being expended on the steel industry, both the part which is privately owned and that which is publicly owned? Why is there no mention of one of the country's most important industries?
Mr John Jones: Steel?
