§ Mr. W. J. BROWNI desire to ask the leave of the Rouse to present the following Petition:
To the hon. Members of the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled.The honourable Petition of the undersigned citizens showeth that if any legislation is passed by law for reduction in the existing scale of Unemployment Benefit or the period for the receipt of benefit serious hardships will be suffered by the vast army of unemployed workers. Wherefore your Petitioners pray that none of the recommendations of the Committee on National Expenditure regarding the unemployed will be put into operation and your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.It bears some 500,000 signatories, and I ask the leave of the House to present the Petition.