A BROAD, STRAIGHT ISSUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 271, 13 November 1909, Page 5

A BROAD, STRAIGHT ISSUE.

"WEEN TKE ..ORBS REJECT. EFFECT OF TARIFF REFORM. LONDON, November 12. The Duke of Argyll, speaking at the Conservative Conference at Dundee, said that if the House of Lords rejected the Budget with a strong protest against itprovisions, and a declaration that the Lords were not responsible for it,- the issue would be broad and straight between tariff reform and the Budget. The general result of tariff reform, according to the experience of all lands, would be the keeping up and steadying of wages and the prevention of the oscillation in the demand for labour. Lord Avebury, in the course of an interview, said that personally he thought it would be advisable for the Lords to amend instead of reject the Budget, because it contained many old taxes which they had no desire to disturb, but the effects of the Budget would be so disastrous that, as the Marquis of, Lansdowne proposed to meet it by a direct negative, he was prepared to support its rejection. AMERICAN CONGRATULATIONS. FROM TEE EABOTJR FEDERATION. (Received 8.50 a.m.) OTTAWA, November 12. The convention of the American Federation of Labour, sitting at Toronto, after hearing addresses by Mr J. R. dynes and Mr A. H. Gill, British Labour M.P.'s, who brought greetings from the British trades unions, unanimously passed a resolution warmly congratulating Mr Lloyd George on his Budget, which the convention believes is intended to secure the welfare and interests of the whole of the people of Great Britain.