§ Postponed Proceeding resumed on Amendment to Question, "That the Bill be now read the Third time."
§ Question again proposed, "That the word 'now' stand part of the Question."
§ 11.0 P.M.
§ Major CRAWFURDWhen the Debate on the Finance Bill was interrupted, I was raising some points in connection with the motor industry and the things which had been left undone. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer might have done more for the motor industry and certainly more for the motor-using public than he has done by his excursion into the realm of tariffs. First of all I want to say one sentence on the present condition of the Road Fund itself. I want to remind the House that this fund has increased in the last four years from £11,000,000 to over £16,000,00; we are rapidly approaching a position where the Road Fund is increasing year by year and the expenditure on roads is very often stationary, or actually decreasing. If these two tendencies persist, there will be a great disparity between the money raised and the money spent. I want to remind the House and the Government that, when the Road Fund was first instituted, by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), in 1909, two things were made perfectly clear. The first was that the money raised for the Road Fund should be spent only on roads, and the second was that the contribution to the Road Fund should be strictly in proportion to road user by the particular vehicle concerned. I must say that in my view motorists in general will have very grave cause for complaint if the Road Fund is ever diverted to other purposes than the construction or maintenance of roads.
1875 With regard to the suggestion I have thrown out that the motor industry might be helped, I am going to make four or rive practical suggestions—[HON. MEMBERS: "Oh!"]—or rather, if hon. Members do not like my calling them suggestions, I will say that I will state four or five ways in which the right hon. Gentleman might have done what he is now attempting to do with a tariff. I would suggest that this is a very proper moment for making these suggestions, because the Road Fund, as I have shown, is increasing. The first of these suggestions is that the time is ripe, and it would be fair, to reduce the tax on the lower-powered motor car. Again, the time is ripe to reduce the tax on the smaller commercial vehicle, on the ordinary motor cycle, and on the ordinary cycle with motor attachment; the time is ripe to allow periodical licences for three months to be taken out for motor cycles, as for motor cars; and it would be a very useful thing to give a rebate of, say, 25 per cent. on cars the engines of which are more than five years old.
I am supported in these suggestions by the fact that the types of vehicles which I have mentioned are paying a disproportionate amount for the use of the roads. According to calculations made by the Departmental Committee on, this question, which is still sitting, it costs about one-third of a penny per ton mile to maintain the roads. The small vehicle of 20 horse-power pays four-fifths of a penny; the motor cycle pays about half that amount; the light lorry pays 4 of a penny, and the London omnibus, which is one of the heaviest of all vehicles, pays 15. I am going to throw out the additional suggestion that the Government would do well to reduce the taxation on the smaller cars. I simply make these suggestions, and, if it is too late to incorporate them in the Budget this year, I would throw out the suggestion that the Government should give us some assurance that they will consider them before next year.
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon)I feel in duty bound to say a word in answer to the hon. and gallant Gentleman because he had the kindness to withdraw two Amendments on Report which might have started very long debates. I do not 1876 think at this late hour the House would like me to go into the big subject he has raised. We admit readily that there are inequalities which might be remedied, and when we get the time, when the House is not sitting, we intend to go into the reorganisation of the taxation of motor-cars from top to bottom. I should like to say now that we still adhere to the tax from the point of view of formula and we do not intend to revert to a tax on petrol, but want to revise it from top to bottom on the basis of the damage done to the roads.
§ Mr. NEIL MACLEANNo doubt in view of the relays that have been brought in to secure the easy passage of the Bill, it will be placed on the Statute Book very shortly, but some of us at least might be permitted to enter our final protest with regard to the manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has assisted his class and his political friends. He has made a very remarkable statement. He said the late Chancellor of the Exchequer assisted the working classes by relieving them from a portion of indirect taxation and consequently he was entitled to assist Super-tax payers. There is a very wide difference, not only with regard to the people who were paying these indirect taxes last year and the Super-tax, but also in the circumstances of these two sections. Most of the people who were paying the indirect taxes last year, and who were assisted by the late Chancellor were members of the working classes. This year the relief is given to Super-tax payers. It is a remarkable feature of this year's financial statement that the income of the working classes shows a reduction of approximately £300,000,000, whereas the incomes of those who are getting income assessable to the Super-tax have not only increased in amount, but the numbers who are drawing such incomes have increased. The workers, on the other hand, have not only suffered a reduction in their income, but in numbers; they have also suffered a reduction in those who are getting any income at all save such as are fortunate enough to be getting it from the Employment Exchanges. In his very last speech on the Finance Bill the Chancellor of the Exchequer once again made it clear that the Budget that he has engineered so skilfully through the House is assisting only one 1877 section of the community and is in no way assisting the section of the community who require most assistance.
One other thing the right hon. Gentleman mentioned the other evening—and I have no doubt that is one of the reasons he is in the position he is in to-day—was that the perfect man was he that changed his opinions most often. I think, in that case, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to be the most perfect politician in the United Kingdom, if not in the entire world. He has stated that he is not introducing any Protectionist duties in this Finance Bill. He mentioned a communication he had received from Courtaulds, stating they were not intending to increase the price of their commodities before the 30th September. The Chancellor of the Exchequer read that out with great gusto, and made it appear to this House, that because of that single letter he had received, the tax that was being put upon silk and artificial silk would not increase the price of those commodities. As a matter of fact, as far as I can gather from those to whom I have applied for information, it will take almost until the end of September for the firm of Courtaulds to work off the stock they have at the price they paid before this tax will be imposed, and, consequently, they are not giving to the people of this country any consolation, nor do they deserve any credit for what they are doing. They will be putting on the additional cost when the next tax is being imposed on any future stock they bring into this country.
There is one other point I want to mention. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement with regard to the amount of debt that this country had to carry, and the amount of income that was necessary to meet the debt that was bearing upon us so heavily. I suggested in this House, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer was then going through one of those changes in his political faith that he seems to go through so often —I suggested, I think on two or three different Finance Bills, that one way out of the difficulty of the burden of taxation would be a reduction in the interest that was being paid upon War Loan. That was received in this House by the opposition of the Members on the other side, who at that time were not the Tory party, but a combination of Tories and Coalition 1878 Liberals. I again suggest that, so long as you are having this heavy burden of taxation due to the War, it is going to be necessary to look for fresh methods of imposing taxation upon different articles. The taxation from which this country is suffering is not due to anything the people in this country have done. The great increase of taxation in this country is due to the stupidity, the ignorance and the malignance of those who have been governing this country during the past 10 or 15 years. Had they been what they claimed to be, statesmen capable of steering the country through its difficulties, the country would not to-day have been saddled with the burden of debt, the interest on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is endeavouring to meet.
All the faults of our past governors prior to and during the War have to be paid for to-day by the people of this country, and, in the main, by the working people, so long as the Government, whether it be a Tory Government or a Government of any other kind, does not meet the situation boldly, does not face up to the issue squarely, does not go to the people who during the War made no sacrifice, but merely handed over their money at the high rates of interest that were then being offered, while the youth of the country were sacrificing blood, limb and muscle. When these men are, many of them, walking our streets, blinded wrecks of humanity due to the crass stupidity of our old governors, the time has arrived when some of those privileged people should show that they can rise above class feeling and mere love of money and the desire to flaunt their wealth in the face of the starving multitudes of this country, as at Ascot. It is time that these people recognised the difficulties of the country by offering to make the sacrifice, instead of waiting until the people compel them to make the sacrifice. [HON. MEMBERS: "Oh!"] I know that this is not a popular subject to hon. Members on the other side. I know that at this time of night they do not like plain speaking, any more than they like plain living. The conditions to-day have grown so bad and have grown so much worse since this Government came into office that I consider it necessary to divide against the Third Reading of a Budget which is purely a class Bud- 1879 get, which ignores entirely the misery of the people outside, which gives to the wealthy people of this country that to which they are not entitled, which makes still further for the misery of the poor, and which has been brought forward by a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has changed his opinions as often as it is possible for any human being to change his opinions, and who in his first Budget finds it necessary to placate the party behind him so that they will feel that he is secure as a Tory now and henceforth. [Interruption.] I am speaking for the people I represent, many of whom are going through starvation at the present time. If hon. Members opposite went into their constituencies as often as I go into mine and as some of my colleagues go into theirs, and heard the pitiful tales of my constituents there would not be such a feeling of liveliness at this time of the evening— [HON. MEMBERS: "Sob stuff!"]— rather sob stuff than the snob stuff which we get from the other side. [HON. MEMBERS: "Do something!"] You have robbed the people too long, you and your class. You have done too much to the people of this country. It is because of the things that you and your party have done to the people that the country is in the state in which it is to-day. I am prepared to go into any industrial constituency with any hon. Member who supports the Finance Bill, and take the mind of the people in that industrial constituency. [HON. MEMBERS: "Oldham!"] Go into any constituency that is not thimble-rigged with the vote, go into any constituency that has been going through unemployment for the past three years. [HON. MEMBERS: "Old ham!"] Oldham has not been going through unemployment for the past three years. It is a curious thing that Hon. Members on the other side should talk about Oldham. They were afraid to fight Oldham. [Interruption.]
§ Mr. MACLEANI can excuse the feelings of hon. Members opposite. Of course, they are not concerned very much with the unemployment that exists. [HON. MEMBERS: "Order!"] When I say that they are not concerned with unemployment, they have a number of unemployed friends of theirs, but they have a big unemployment dole and they are not turned down by the Employment Exchange. [HON. MEMBERS: "Divide!"] If hon. Members interrupt me, I can go on until six o'clock in the morning. I know that many hon. Members opposite do not like the truth. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has now made friends of those who formerly attacked him in the days when he was making those speeches which are now looked upon as the standard speeches on the taxation of land values. In those days he was not loved by Members on the other side. In those days they shouted "Divide!" and tried to howl him down when he was speaking about the landlords. In those days some of the Members now sitting side by side with him hated him so much that they threw Order books at his head in this House, and now they embrace him and offer him the loving cup. Now they are all brothers, united to fight the workers of this country. Let me tell hon. Members opposite that we accept their challenge. I say to them this: We can meet you in a General Election now or at any time you care to select. If you imagine that this Budget is such a wonderful Budget, that it is so acceptable to the people, go to the country on it. I am confident that if an election were to take place hon. Members on the other side would not find this House of Commons the social centre that so many of them believe it to be, but would find it turned into a working chamber whose task would be the framing of legislation that would bring happiness to the great majority of the people.
§ Question put, "That the word 'now ' stand part of the Question."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 298; Noes, 92.
1883| Division No. 209.] | AYES. | [11.27 p.m. |
| Acland-Troyte Lieut.-Colonel | Ashley, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Wilfrid W. | Balfour, George (Hampstead) |
| Agg-Gardner, Rt. Hon. Sir James T. | Ashmead-Bartlett, E. | Barker, G. (Monmouth, Abertillery) |
| Ainsworth, Major Charles | Astbury, Lieut.-Commander | F. W. Barclay-Harvey, C. M. |
| Albery, Irving James | Astor, Viscountess | Beamish, Captain T. P. H. |
| Amery, Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. | Atholl, Duchess of | Beckett, Sir Gervase (Leeds, N.) |
| Applin, Colonel R. V. K. | Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Beilairs, Commander Carlyon W. |
| Bennett, A. J. | Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E. | Merriman, F. B. |
| Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish- | Gadie, Lieut.-Col. Anthony | Meyer, Sir Frank |
| Berry, Sir George | Galbraith, J. F. W. | Milne, J. S. Wardlaw- |
| Bethell, A. | Ganzoni, Sir John | Mitchell, S. (Lanark, Lanark) |
| Betterton, Henry B. | Gates, Percy | Mitchell, W. Foot (Saffron Walden) |
| Birchall, Major J. Dearman | Gee, Captain R. | Mitchell, Sir W. Lane (Streatham) |
| Bird, E. R. (Yorks, W. R., Skipton) | Gilmour, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John | Moles, Thomas |
| Bird, Sir R. B. (Wolverhampton, W.) | Glyn, Major R. G. C. | Monsell, Eyres, Com. Rt. Hon. B. M. |
| Blundell, F. N. | Goff, Sir Park | Moore, Lieut.-Colonel T. C. R. (Ayr) |
| Bourne, Captain Robert Croft | Gower, Sir Robert | Moore, Sir Newton J. |
| Bowater, Sir T. Vansittart | Grace, John | Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. |
| Bowyer, Capt. G. E. W. | Grant, J. A. | Morden, Col. W. Grant |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Major A. | Greene, W. P. Crawford | Moreing, Captain A. H. |
| Brass, Captain W. | Greenwood, Rt. Hn. Sir H. (W'th's'w, E) | Morrison, H. (Wilts, Salisbury) |
| Brassey, Sir Leonard | Grenfell, Edward C. (City of London) | Morrison-Bell, Sir Arthur Clive |
| Bridgeman, Rt. Hon. William Clive | Gretton, Colonel John | Murchison, C. K. |
| Briggs, J. Harold | Grotrian, H. Brent | Nail, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Joseph |
| Briscoe, Richard George | Guest, Capt. Rt. Hon. F. E. (Bristol, N.) | Nelson, Sir Frank |
| Brittain, Sir Harry | Guinness, Rt. Hon. Walter E. | Neville, R. J. |
| Brocklebank, C. E. R. | Gunston, Captain D. W. | Newman, Sir R. H. S. D. L. (Exeter) |
| Brooke, Brigadier-General C. R. I. | Hall, Lieut.-Col. Sir F. (Dulwich) | Newton, Sir O. G. C. (Cambridge) |
| Broun-Lindsay, Major H. | Hall, Vice-Admiral Sir R. (Eastbourne) | Nicholson, O. (Westminster) |
| Brown. Brig.-Gen. H. C.(Berks, Newb'y) | Hall, Capt. W. D'A. (Brecon & Rad.) | Nicholson, Col. Rt. Hn. W. G.(Ptrsf'ld.) |
| Buckingham, Sir H. | Hanbury, C. | Nuttall, Ellis |
| Bullock, Captain M. | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry | Oakley, T. |
| Burgoyne, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Alan | Harland, A. | O'Connor, T. J. (Bedford, Luton) |
| Burman, J. B. | Harrison, G. J. C. | Oman, Sir Charles William C. |
| Burton, Colonel H. W. | Hartington, Marquess of | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William |
| Butler, Sir Geoffrey | Harvey, G. (Lambeth, Kennington) | Pennefather, Sir John |
| Butt, Sir Alfred | Harvey, Major S. E. (Devon, Totnes) | Penny, Frederick George |
| Cadogan, Major Hon. Edward | Haslam, Henry C. | Percy, Lord Eustace (Hastings) |
| Caine, Gordon Hall | Hawke, John Anthony | Perkins, Colonel E. K. |
| Campbell, E. T. | Headlam, Lieut.-Colonel C. M. | Peto, Basil E. (Devon, Barnstaple) |
| Cayzer, Sir C. (Chester, City) | Henderson, Capt. R. R.(Oxf'd, Henley) | Peto, G. (Somerset, Frome) |
| Cayzer, Maj. Sir Herbt. R. (Prtsmth. S.) | Henniker-Hughan, Vice-Adm. Sir A. | Philipson, Mabel |
| Cazalet, Captain Victor A. | Herbert, S.(York, N. R., Scar. & Wh'by) | Pielou, D. P. |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord H. (Ox. Univ.) | Hoare, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir S. J. G. | Pilditch, Sir Philip |
| Chadwick, Sir Robert Burton | Hogg, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (St. Marylebone) | Pownall, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. N. (Ladywood) | Hohler, Sir Gerald Fitzroy | Preston, William |
| Charteris, Brigadier-General J. | Holt, Captain H. P. | Price, Major C. W. M. |
| Chilcott, Sir Warden | Human, C. W. J. | Radford, E. A. |
| Christie, J. A. | Hope, Capt. A. O. J. (Warw'k, Nun.) | Ramsden, E. |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer | Hope, Sir Harry (Forfar) | Rawllnson. Rt. Hon. John Fredk. Peel |
| Churchman, Sir Arthur C. | Hopkins, J. W. W. | Rawson, Alfred Cooper |
| Clarry, Reginald George | Horllck, Lieut.-Colonel J. N. | Remer, J. R. |
| Clayton, G. C. | Howard, Capt. Hon. D. (Cumb., N.) | Rentoul, G. S. |
| Cochrane, Commander Hon. A. D. | Hudson, R. S. (Cumberl'nd, Whiteh'n) | Rhys, Hon. C. A. U. |
| Cockerill, Brigadier-General G. K. | Hume, Sir G. H. | Roberts, E. H. G. (Flint) |
| Cohen, Major J. Brunel | Huntingfield, Lord | Ropner, Major L. |
| Colfox, Major Wm. Phillips | Hurd, Percy A. | Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) |
| Conway, Sir W. Martin | Hurst, Gerald B. | Rye, F. G. |
| Cooper, A. Duff | Iliffe, Sir Edward M. | Salmon, Major I. |
| Cope, Major William | Jackson, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. F. S. | Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham) |
| Couper, J. B. | Jackson, Sir H. (Wandsworth, Cen'l) | Samuel, Samuel (W'dsworth, Putney) |
| Courthope, Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. | Jacob, A. E. | Sandeman, A. Stewart |
| Cowan, Sir Wm. Henry (Islington, N.) | Joynson-Hicks, Rt. Hon. Sir William | Sanders, Sir Robert A. |
| Craig, Ernest (Chester, Crewe) | Kennedy, A. R. (Preston) | Sanderson, Sir Frank |
| Croft, Brigadier-General Sir H. | Kidd, J. (Linlithgow) | Sandon, Lord |
| Crookshank, Cpt. H.(Lindsey, Gainsbro) | Kindersley, Major Guy M. | Sassoon, Sir Philip Albert Gustave D. |
| Curzon, Captain Viscount | Knox, Sir Alfred | Savery, S. S. |
| Dalkeith, Earl of | Lamb, J. Q. | Scott, Sir Leslie (Liverp'l, Exchange) |
| Davidson, J. (Hertf'd, Hemel Hempst'd) | Lane-Fox, Lieut.-Col. George R. | Shaw, R. G. (Yorks, W. R., Sowerby) |
| Davidson, Major-General Sir John H. | Little, Dr. E. Graham | Shaw, Capt. W. W. (Wilts, Westb'y) |
| Davies, Maj. Geo. F. (Somerset, Yeovil) | Lloyd, Cyril E. (Dudley) | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley |
| Davies, Sir Thomas (Cirencester) | Locker-Lampson, G. (Wood Green) | Simms, Dr. John M. (Co. Down) |
| Davison, Sir W. H. (Kensington, S.) | Loder, J. de V. | Sinclair, Col. T. (Queen's Univ., Belfst) |
| Dawson, Sir Philip | Looker, Herbert William | Slaney, Major P. Kenyon |
| Dixon, Captain Rt. Hon. Herbert | Lowe, Sir Francis William | Smith, R. W. (Aberd'n & Kinc'dine, C.) |
| Drewe, C. | Lucas-Tooth, Sir Hugh Vere | Smith-Carington, Neville W. |
| Edmondson, Major A. J. | Lumley, L. R. | Smithers, Waldron |
| Elliot, Captain Walter E. | MacAndrew, Charles Glen | Spender Clay, Colonel H. |
| Elveden, Viscount | Macdonald, Capt. P. D. (I. of W.) | Sprot, Sir Alexander |
| Erskine, Lord (Somerset, Weston-s.-M.) | Macdonald, R. (Glasgow, Cathcart) | Stanley, Col. Hon. G. F.(Will'sden, E.) |
| Evans, Captain A. (Cardiff, South) | McDonnell, Colonel Hon. Angus | Stanley, Hon. O. F. G. (Westm'eland) |
| Everard, W. Lindsay | Macintyre, I. | Steel, Major Samuel Strang |
| Falle, Sir Bertram G. | MacMillan, Captain H. | Storry Deans, R. |
| Falls, Sir Charles F. | Macnaghten, Hon. Sir Malcolm | Strickland, Sir Gerald |
| Fermoy, Lord | Maitland, Sir Arthur D. Steel- | Stuart, Crichton-, Lord C. |
| Fielden, E. B. | Makins, Brigadier-General E. | Stuart, Hon. J. (Moray and Nairn) |
| Ford, P. J. | Malone, Major P. B. | Styles, Captain H. Walter |
| Forestier-Walker, Sir L. | Manningham-Buller, Sir Mervyn | Sueter, Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser |
| Foster, Sir Harry S. | Margesson, Captain D. | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid |
| Foxcroft, Captain C. T. | Mason, Lieut.-Col. Glyn K. | Sykes, Major-Gen. Sir Frederick H. |
| Fraser, Captain Ian | Meller, R. J. | Templeton, W. P. |
| Thompson, Luke (Sunderland) | Wells, S. R. | Wood, Rt. Hon. E. (York, W. R., Ripon) |
| Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South) | Wheler, Major Sir Granville C. H. | Wood, E. (Chest'r, Stalyb'dge & Hyde) |
| Thomson, Sir W. Mitchell-(Croydon. S.) | White, Lieut. Colonel G. Dalrymple | Wood, Sir Kingsley (Woolwich, W.). |
| Tinne, J. A. | Williams, Com. C. (Devon, Torquay) | Wood, Sir S. Hill- (High Peak) |
| Titchfield, Major the Marquess of | Williams, Herbert G. (Reading) | Woodcock, Colonel H. C. |
| Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement | Wilson, M. J. (York, N. R., Richm'd) | Worthington-Evans, Rt. Hon. Sir L. |
| Vaughan-Morgan, Col. K. P. | Wilson, R. R. (Stafford, Lichfield) | Wragg, Herbert |
| Ward, Lt.-Col. A. L.(Kingston-on-Hull) | Windsor-Clive, Lieut.-Colonel George | |
| Warner, Brigadier-General W. W. | Wise, Sir Fredric | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Warrender, Sir Victor | Wolmer, Viscount | Major Hennessy and Lord Stanley. |
| Waterhouse, Captain Charles | Womersley, W. J. | |
| NOES. | ||
| Adamson, W. M. (Staff., Cannock) | Harris, Percy A. | Riley, Ben |
| Alexander, A. V. (Sheffield, Hillsbro') | Hastings, Sir Patrick | Ritson, J. |
| Ammon, Charles George | Hayes, John Henry | Roberts, Rt. Hon. F. O. (W. Bromwich) |
| Attlee, Clement Richard | Henderson, T. (Glasgow) | Rose, Frank H. |
| Baker, J. (Wolverhampton, Bilston) | Hirst, W. (Bradford, South) | Saklatvala, Shapurji |
| Barnes, A. | Hudson, J. H. (Huddersfield) | Scurr, John |
| Batey, Joseph | Hutchison, Sir Robert (Montrose) | Short, Alfred (Wednesbury) |
| Beckett, John (Gateshead) | Jenkins, W. (Glamorgan, Neath) | Sinclair, Major Sir A. (Caithness) |
| Benn, Captain Wedgwood (Leith) | John, William (Rhondda, West) | Sitch, Charles H. |
| Bowerman, Rt. Hon. Charles W. | Johnston, Thomas (Dundee) | Slesser, Sir Henry H. |
| Briant, Frank | Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) | Smith, Ben (Bermondsey, Rotherhithe) |
| Buchanan, G. | Jones, T. I. Mardy (Pontypridd) | Snell, Harry |
| Charleton, H. C. | Kelly, W. T. | Stamford, T. W. |
| Cluse, W. S. | Kirk wood, D. | Stephen, Campbell |
| Collins, Sir Godfrey (Greenock) | Lansbury, George | Taylor, R. A. |
| Compton, Joseph | Lawson, John James | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton, E.) |
| Connolly, M. | Lowth, T. | Thurtle, E. |
| Crawfurd, H. E. | Lunn, William | Tinker, John Joseph |
| Dalton, Hugh | MacDonald, Rt. Hon. J. R. (Aberavon) | Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. C. P. |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Mackinder, W. | Varley, Frank B. |
| Day, Colonel Harry | MacLaren, Andrew | Westwood, J. |
| Duncan, C. | Maclean, Nell (Glasgow, Govan) | Whiteley, W. |
| Gibbins, Joseph | March, S. | Wilkinson, Ellen C. |
| Gosling, Harry | Murnin, H. | Williams, T. (York, Don Valley) |
| Greenwood, A. (Nelson and Colne) | Naylor, T. E. | Wilson, C. H. (Sheffield, Attercliffe) |
| Grenfell, D. R. (Glamorgan) | Oliver, George Harold | Wilson, R. J. (Jarrow) |
| Griffiths, T. (Monmouth, Pontypool) | Palin, John Henry | Young, Robert (Lancaster, Newton) |
| Groves, T. | Paling, W. | |
| Guest, Dr. L. Haden (Southwark, N.) | Pethick-Lawrence, F. W. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Hall, F. (York, W.R., Normanton) | Ponsonby, Arthur | Mr. T. Kennedy and Mr. Charles |
| Hall, G. H. (Merthyr Tydvil) | Potts, John S. | Edwards. |
| Hardie, George D. | Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring) |
Bill read the Third time, and passed.