CENSURE MOTION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10659, 14 June 1912, Page 5

CENSURE MOTION

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

DEFEATED BY 77 VOTES,

(Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) , LONDON, June 13.

The censure motion proposed by Mr Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons in regard to the McKenna Commission report was negatived by 337 votes to 260.

The Nationalists and Labourites voted with the Government. The O'Brienites abstained from voting,, and a score cf Liberals were absent.

'Mv Chamberlain acknowledged tliat dissatisfied workmen were entitled to strike, but satisfied workmen had an equal right to work. The Government was prepared l to call out troops in Belfast when the right of free speech'' was assailed. It was equally bound to protect the right to work. Sir Reginald McKenna said that more labour was protected in the present strike without soldiery than previously. Ho denied thiat men wishing to work were prevented. There were now eight thousand men. in the docks, and there was no room for more while J the lightermen blocked the -way. In reference to the refusal to send police to the purfleet, it was only required that the local authorities should show j that the cause was urgent, because the • metropolitan police .were barely able to moe with the London requirements. Hence it was suggested to obtain police from Birmingham. This was done. He adhfired to the assertion that Boulder Bros, filling the LadyJocelyn with free labour was Drovooative. Their protection would necessitate the withdrawal of police, thus sacrificing public interest.