Mr Winston Churchill: ...tax boldly and freely the silk tissues on full weight, including loading. But that is only a portion of the subject. Side by side with this question of loading is the problem of filling. In India, China, and other places a lot of silk fabric is made up, and very often a good many extraneous elements are mixed with the silk content. Rice and flour and other ingredients are mixed with the...
Oral Answers to Questions — China.
Mr Herbert Looker: ...for Foreign Affairs whether he can assure the House that His Majesty's ships are in a position to afford protection to British men, women and children living on the coasts and up the waterways of China, in view of the fact that naval protection is the only protection on which they can rely in time of sudden danger?
Oral Answers to Questions — China (Disturbances).
Mr George Lansbury: Puts it in China.
Mr Thomas Johnston: .... We know that they have been invested in a wastage of the primary necessities of life. We know that they are invested abroad, and we heard this afternoon about millions of capital invested in China, exploiting Chinese children—seven days a week and 18 hours a day, for a wage which does not supply them with food—to compete with the products of British industry. I submit that it is an...
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Mr William Mackinder: ...the effect of this tax on silk in the West Riding. I find that there comes into this country, or there is availableforimport into this country, about 30 tons of partly discharged waste from China. That material is brought here at a cost approximately of 7d. To 7ir,d. per lb. The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes a tax on it of 3s. per lb. The material, if it were all imported into this...
Oral Answers to Questions — China (Marconi and Vickers Loans).
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...of Preference. I live for the day to hear him standing at that box and defending Imperial Preference. It does not seem to have done much good to the tea producers of the Empire. The consumption of China tea is remarkably steady. It has not decreased, whereas the imports of tea from Java and other countries, whose tea is cheaper than Empire tea, are actually increasing, so that Preference...
Mr. WILLIAMS: It is perfectly obvious, it is common knowledge. There is only one reason why the standard of the living of the Englishman is higher than that of the Chinaman, and that is that he is more successful as a productive agent. There is no other reason. If we are to go in for international Communism, the constituents of my hon. Friend the Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) are...
Mr Stanley Baldwin: ...today. For that purpose, I am moving the suspension of the Rule. In the event of that stage of the Gold Standard Pill being obtained before eleven, I propose to ask the House only to consider the China Indemnity (Application) Bill, on Report, and the Administration of Justice Bill, also on Report.
Orders of the Day — China Indemnity (Application) Bill.
Clause I. — (Application of China Indemnity.)
...the International Labour Movement. If Japan has passed a Factory Bill, as it did not long ago, it is entirely due to the International Labour Office; and, if the scandalous conditions existing in China are ever to be remedied, it must be entirely through the activities of the International Labour Movement. We cannot expect these countries to improve their conditions if we refuse to do our...
China (Inland Missions).
Mr Austen Chamberlain: On Monday we propose to take the Gold Standard Bill, Second Reading and the Committee stage of the necessary Money Resolution; the China Indemnity (Applica
China (Boxer Indemnity).
Oral Answers to Questions — China.
