| Show PRESS ASSAILS LORD BALDWIN Obtain Subsidy for Coal Industry By Vote of to 16 LONDON LONDO Aug 7 R 7 W succeeded In getting appropriation to prevent a 0 nation nation- nationwide nationwide wide coal strike tho the government turns turn Its attention today to the commission which It promised would investigate the coal Indus indus- try The selection of r the tho members II of or f the tho commission IO If alt all the par parties ties are to be satisfied will m- m m be a a. matter of ot great grett difficulty The government is ex- ex expected ex ex- expected however to take time K la 11 r rIts Its selections and It Is hoped that t the tho feelings a aroused over sut tho subvention enI to the mine own own- owners o I ers may have lost their acuteness by t y the time the commission i tl completely made up All the thc members of the hou c e cf or of f commons except 16 and T. T a handful of ot Conservatives who abstained ab ab- abstained abstaIned stained from voting last night nigh endorsed the pounds sterling subvention The position had aad been generally accepted as us Inevitable under the circum circum- circumstances circumstances stances but It was not expected that hat tho the vote In favor of ot the life ll e appropriation would bo be anything any thIn like to 16 I Prime Primo Minister Baldwin began the he debate which did not take the acrimonious course courso that WAS waa for by offering as Justin Justin- i cation for Cor the governments government's action In proposing the subsidy the fact that faced with a II great gr at alliance I of trade unionists who had it la In their power to cause Irreparable damage to the country unusual means had to bo be adopted to fo toward I Iward ward off the danger I Former Premier Lloyd Ge George 0 I i and the former labor premier r Ramsay Macdonald were amOl I those who found Cound fault with the thc governments government's action Mr r. r Macdon Macdon- Macdonald ald aid while he opposed the subsidy In principle admitted there wad no other alternative alternative- for Cor the gov gOY after arter having been Inac inac- Inactive inactive tive U for a n. long time when it might have endeavored to a I settlement of tho the mining dis dis- Mr Ir Lioyd Lloyd George Georgo charas- charas ten sed the tho subsidy because it had been made mado without stipulation regarding tho the conditions of ot trade during tho the months it was waa in InC ef effect C f- f as CUI nationalization In Its worst form Corm The government is severely scored on a a. variety of or grounds by editorial commentators today and t Premier Baldwin Is especially esp tacked for Cor telling the miners ant an 1 owners that no subsidy would be granted and then granting one on 00 po |
