§ Mr. BrockwayWith your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to present a Petition, the signatures of which have been collected by Mrs. Stella Beamond and a few widows in Slough. It is addressed to the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled and is the humble Petition of citizens of the Borough of Slough and its precincts. The Petition sheweth that large numbers of widows are in dire circumstances.
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that we the undersigned, desiring fair play for widowed mothers, request the immediate abolition of the ruling whereby deductions are made from our inadequate pension if more than £3 a week is earned.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.As I have already read the Petition, Mr. Speaker, I will not trouble the Clerk to read it.
§ To lie upon the Table.