HC Deb 26 November 1925 vol 188 cc1579-80 The following Question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. HARMS-WORTH: 32. To ask the Home Secretary whether he intends to prevent the landing in this country of Mr. Tom Walsh, who is alleged to have organised the strike of British seamen in Australian ports?
Mr. MACLEAN

Is it in order that a question should be allowed on the Paper in a case which is sub judice in one of our Colonies?

Mr. SPEAKER

I was not aware of that. If that be so it is most undesirable.

Mr. MACLEAN

May I point out that an appeal has been taken against this sentence of deportation and that the matter is awaiting trial?

Mr. SPEAKER

That being so, I am sure that the hon. Member for Thanet (Mr. Harmsworth) will not ask the question.

33. Mr. HARMSWORTH

asked the Home Secretary whether, owing to the fact that seamen are not required to be in possession of passports, persons otherwise excluded from this country may gain entry by signing on for a voyage to Great Britain; and whether he has any arrangement with the Board of Trade subjecting to a rigid scrutiny the lists of names of seamen on board alien vessels which arrive in this country?

Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON

Under the Aliens Order the master of any ship arriving from a port outside the United Kingdom is required to furnish the immigration officer with a list containing particulars of all members of the crew who are aliens, and no such alien is permitted to land for discharge, or for transfer to new articles, without the permission of the immgration officer.