BILL BECOMES LAW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 159, 27 February 1932, Page 5

BILL BECOMES LAW

(Press Assn.-

beginning of new career for great britain minister given ovation

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

Rec. Feb. 26, 5.5 p.m. LONDQ'N, Thursday. In the House of Gommons, Major C. R. Attlee (Labour-Limehouse) moved a new clause in the Imports Duty Bill. to provide that duties would be withdrawn from any industry failing to reorganise itself in accordance with the Board of Trade requirements. This was rejected by 356 votes to 46. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain, replying to the debate, declared that the emptiness of the Labour benches throughout the debate showed that whatever the Labour members said, they were sanguine that the Bill would remove the whole subject of controversy. The British worker was protectionist -at heart, and recognised that the only chances of maintaining the standard of life Was the same protection that other nations enjoyed. Future historians would mark the passage of the Bill as Great Britain's beginning of a new cafeer, said Mr. Chamberlain. Hand in hand with her own possessions and her sister countries within the Empire, she would become the central figure of a great economic federation, wide and strong enough to withstand any checks to her fortune in future. The Bill passed its third reading by 442 votes to 62 votes amidst wild Conservative cheering. Mr. Chamberlainwas given an ovation as he re-entered the Chamber.