BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE LABOUR MOTION DEFEATED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 17 In the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Oliver Stanley, in continuing the debate on unemployment, said the Government would like to see the van Zeeland report operating, but, looking at the world, he did not believe that a world conference for lowering trade barriers could be anything but an ignominious failure. Our hope for the .future, Mr Stanley added, lay in the export trade. If we could hold and increase it in the coming year, an effective inroad would be made on unemployment. He believed the whole country was ready for a forward move if the fear of war could be removed. There were countries complaining of a shortage of raw materials which would get less if all their demands were granted than was obtainable by the stroke of a pen in removing the tension they had created. He believed there had been a lightening of the tension in the last few weeks. The Labour Party’s motion criticising the Government was defeated by 334 votes to 146.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
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190BRITISH UNEMPLOYED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
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