5 OCTOBER 1929, Page 2

Miss Bondfield The next business on Tuesday was the debate

on Miss Bondfield's policy at the Ministry of Labour which had been postponed from the previous day. In spite of an appeal from Mr. Lansbury, Mr. W. T. Kelly refused to withdraw his condemnatory motion. The motion went to the vote and was nearly carried. The voting was 1,027,000 for the motion and 1,100,000 against. The Government, in the person of a prominent Minister, only just escaped a vote of censure.

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