Evening star., 1944-03-30
Churchill Wins 425-to-23 Vote:
NaZi Forces Evacuate Cernauti>
Opening Balkan Route to Reds
Showing Is Best
Since Early Days
Dictatorship
By the Associated Press.

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LONDON, Mar. 80. - Prime
Minister Churchill tonight won
his eighth vote of confidence in
four years, from a recalcitrant
House of Commons openly vexed
at being called to mark over a
minor domestic issue, but ready
to show its continued support of
the governments overall pro-
gram on the eve of a great new
phase OF Allied attack.
The division was 425 to 23-the
Prime Minister'S strongest showing
since the first three virtually unani-
nous votes of confidence early in his
leadership through the grim days OF
Warfront reverses.
The House, packed with an ur-
gently summoned turnout of govern
ment supporters, cheered as the vote
was announced.
Mr.. Churchill left the hall a
few minutes later, smiling at the
cheers which followed him.
AS to the vote, the question was
whether the House should stand by
It's action of Tuesday, when it over
rode the Churchill government for
the first time by adopting a measure
providing equal pay for equal work
by men and women teachers.
Common Sense Overruled.
Mrs. Cazalet Keir, who offered the
equal pay amendment in the first
place, told the House before the
vote:
The Prime Minister has left no
other possible choice open to us
than to support him. In this vote
of confidence I am going to vote
against clause embodying my own
amendment not because my views
are changed at all on equal pay
been superimposed upon it. In this
great democracy of ours convention
for once seems to have overruled
common sense"
Many in the House, government
supporters among them, were plain
ly provoked at their position.
ut would be more in keeping with
the traditions of Parliament" said
Sir John Wardlaw- Milne, Conserva-
tive, ''if the government had in
tFoduced a measure in which the
whole House could have shown their
unbounded support for the govern
ment in the war effort on a vote of
confidence and not put the House
in the position it is today, in which
members have to eat their own
words and vote against the very
measure they supported so recently
Woman Teachers in Gallery.
Many woman teachers looked on
anxiously from the gallery. Under
present wage scales, man teachers
receive about 10 to 20 per cent more
than women. The government said
it did not oppose equal pay, but
believed action should be taken on
the basis of findings by commit
tee now working out new scale,
The House seats only $50 of its
615 members, and scores stood for
the debate, among them cabinet
ministers.
Cheers greeted Richard A. Butler,
Minister of Education, when he de-
clared the equal pay amendment
was unacceptable to the govern
ment in the form presented.
Mr.. Churchill spoke only once and
briefly. That was to say that be-
cause of a limitati ton on debate he
did not feel justified in offering any
arguments on the main issue, but
that he wished to assure the House
by not taking part in the debate is
not due to any want of respect or a
desire to shirk my duty"
Tilt With Maxton.
At another point the independent
Laborite James MaXton waved al
the conservative benches, unusually
crowded by the party summons for
the vote of confidence, and re-
marked that the government will
be very annoyed if there is no vote
(See CHURCHILL. page A-4D