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UNEMPLOYED QUESTION.
I MOTION OF REGRET | DEFEATED. LONDON, January 31. An amendment, moved in the Commons to the Address-in-Reply by Mr Ramsay Macdonald (Labour-Socialist member for Leicester), regretting the absence from the King's Speech of any promise to deal legislatively with the unemployed question, was negatived by 195 votes to 14f>. The minority included 40 Labourites, 25 Liberals 56 Nationalists and Socialists and 24 Unionists. The Right Hon. John Bums, President of the Local Government Board, in attacking the motion, said some of the aims of Socialism were Utopian. he mentioned that Mr Asquich's Old-Age Pensions Bill would provide for millions of people. Mr Macdonald, interviewed on the result of the division, said it would encourage the Labour party to proceed with their Unemployed Bill.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9045, 3 February 1908, Page 5
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136BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9045, 3 February 1908, Page 5
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