BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Nov. 28, 1927

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation.

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, rose from his seat on the Government bench to answer for the Government. He got no further.

Immediately bedlam was let loose. Angry Laborites chorused: "We want Baldwin! The Prime Minister! We want a responsible Minister! We want to know what...

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