FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19853, 14 February 1930, Page 11

FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.

• : w IBS BDITOK CT TBS PRESS. Sir,r&»ne fifty years ago I: at- • meeting at Wolverhampton. I Wi ipeaicr waa Colonel Burnaby, and Mi mbject was Free Trade or FroUHm. The Drill Hall was packed, ttd if'l had a copy of bis speech it tooM. be very useful at the present I J®Wtare, and,the same arguments he R*B IB jfaroar of protection for Brit-. ■» good* would apply a hundredfold **. But the Old. Land is still grovelpe before the fetish of Free Trade. Mmhow a new movement is on foot J**® to protect home industries. Lord Jtothflrmere, with his backing of that the Loudon "Daily Mail," W» the biggest circulation in the *ffl> w>t counting numerous publiff the satae company, has nw tlw whole hog . and would protect «.*>«» goods with a tariff. Ho put 100 per cent, duty W ■ , t J- of - Or '~ Larß coming into Great , .and coes, on to prove that nas dropped to a third ■ ner exports—whereas a few years wag first. KtekT'j ' the Labour Party in New farStbi f Australia are for big tbe same Party at Homo Jf e Trade. Why? Bceauso Sa'? 0 P r ®®t Britain being flooded foods; in fact, she is •taSr i . Groping ground of the ' &ihl • if _ Labour at Home had It wouljJ admit American and JSr » ( yeigt cars into the country at»u!f * P* 1 ? 11 ? duty. Can anyone j Hotv can the Home •twUAi.' k*® Joseph Chamberlain •I Ui 4? cam P a *K n for tariffs, T was •«d meeting in Birmingham. T*® ® the following statement* tte i!!!ij a^e ' s r'S'it, all the r«t of fort T °2, are fools." This must he *WkiiTjV 8 , j*®>° > an d yet Ave are still f nfii'vi. same groove and all the ""tttn trade is declining.—Yours, •jrPROTECTION, '•"loiirji, February 12th, 1930. :j. *?,-?* *ditor of the pbess. return from Britain Cr. tyMlw.tomplaiaed that New Zealand 7*beiag flooded with cheap garments,. . oe t of sweated labour in Engurged the Government to put tax on garments coming into **nrlvf* Government at the pointing out that very benefit by such a tax, while majority of the working j£<9S/would be penalised. Now there " 0n set up to consider, |j3P»®toer things, the matter of taxgarments, or, it can be put, ' them. Sweated labour "Britain, 'the home of Unionmrriinni w^ere there is an uneman<* where the cost of tUntr 1 , 80 high that overseas lost—Britain flooding with the work of sweated i * atory! Mr •din J, * Union secretary, interestj"fafltn °* tlie garment making fg he asks that more than togjf- of working-men of this • ■oonld be forced to pay more -in »i.B.«°*"i"g of themselves, wives, •# that • tow may ahelit,'

ter themselves under the protection of the Arbitration Court. The best protection we can get is efficiency. Given that, a protective tariff would not be required. If wc get protection by means of an import CiUly, we will never get efficiency, and without efficiency we can nover progress.— Yours, etc., _ ~,,, WORKING MAN. February 13th, 1-930.