KEIR HARDIE (Merthyr Tydvil) moved the following Amendment—"That whilst recognising the importance of the promise of the Prime Minister to introduce legislation next session for dealing with unemployment on a permanent basis, and whilst welcoming the promise to administer with more elasticity the existing Act and to provide more money to make that possible, this House is of opinion that the proposals made are quite inadequate to meet the pressing needs of the unemployed this winter, and that the responsibility for the absence of proper machinery even for carrying out existing 1647 powers, and the general unpreparedness of the country to meet the Present Unemployed Crisis is due to the neglect of the Government to make provision for a state of affairs which was clearly foreseen," He said the most extraordinary feature of the speeches to which they had just listened from the hon. Members who moved and seconded the Motion was the very careful way in which they had steered clear of the Government proposals.

Amendment proposed— "In line 1, to leave out from the word 'That,' to the end of the Question, and add the words 'whilst recognising the importance of the promise of the Prime Minister to introduce legislation next session for dealing with unemployment on a permanent basis, and whilst welcoming the promise to administer with more elasticity the existing Act and to provide more money to make that possible, this House is of opinion that the proposals made are quite inadequate to meet the pressing needs of the unemployed this winter, and that the responsibility for the absence of proper machinery even for carrying out existing powers and the general unpreparedness of the country to meet the Present Unemployed Crisis is due to the neglect of the Government to make provision for a state of affairs which was clearly foreseen".

That is the Crisis of the Unemployed, and therefore the Government has not solved the national crisis.