FOOD TAXES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19983, 18 July 1930, Page 11

FOOD TAXES.

SAFEGUARDS iNDUSTfIIES. DETENTIONS OF GOVERN. M3BNT STATED. , cowwßmiVß MOTION LOST, '■■■■' l RUGBY, July 10. Mr Bt§" lc y Baldwin (Conservative ' Leader) moved a vote of censure on the Government in the House of Commow tW» evening. Tho motion declared that * hß « 0U8? ' believing that a • itim to prosperity could only be projartflj fry eafeguardiug home markets against unfair competition, and by e*r ' ptoding export markets by reciprocal \nfa agreements with the Empire overteaa> regretted that the Government kri'reversed the policy pf safeguarding i-rtead of extending it, and M barfly excluded from consideration, the imposition of duties on foreign f°odjtnffs, devised to obtain equivalent atoßtftges for British manufacturers 22Ttriwltwe in British markets and **5J ffijwin invited Mr Philip Snowmen (Chancellor of the Exchequer) to state the P°l icv the Government inMit& te follow at the Imperial CopMr Bnowden, replying, said the Gov■loßl4B* would be no party to food tutl, or taxes on raw materia) or protMtlvt duties It would enter the ImKW Conference barring 00 questions n discussion, but it would be made ■ abundantly dear that it would approve «f BO «n#l MnalWfop which invp ypd - tiw country in a feed taxation ; Of a geneiaj protectionist rmliay. Out- -. t«« Of that there were plenty flf qua*, ■i tfo B( . of great importance, which the '■ fewriaj Conference could 4iseUßS, -Uf Jfag&r&ing safeguards** he declared 'f' OAt the Opposition could not peirit In H' a«y of the safeguarded industries to any 4'marked «ff«*t which the duties hM had f in impwiHg the poeitios for tr»d«'v>- Mr Lloyd George (Liberal te»4er) ... wpported the attitude taken by the Government. IJdscuJHdon «Q tb« Motion* Mr U<%& fJeorge that Mr SaMwia's e«»wwre motion was the B«ft iflesplieaMe he ba4 ev«r heard. Ur Baldwin was condemning the Government for repudiating food taxes, which he had bimsolf repudiated only a few weeks »»go. Sir Baldwin bad hfen on a sliding staircase. He bad net moved, but had been wovedj in fact be had been puubed about rather badjy by his own followers. Unem* pioynwipt WBJ tPQ grave to bo use<| njerely for Party manoeuvres. S> Oswald Moslev said: "What we wwt »nd what the Pominions want t-'fy a hard, concrete noiicy which will «" M>t agrienltura! and industrial needs, beaver yoq tnrn, from the T.U-U. ittftfort to the banker's, ygu ftnd * grow, yjaa concensus of opinion that it is despr ifflk to irwnlate thw oonntry fronj the £3BBan. of world conditiohs . , Jin Mr Rajniay MacPonald recalled Mr KMl«Wv>iliw<li» at »rury Um L »n |li , «wU. MSClß,which he pledged that Conservatives would not impoße W' jod taxes. If Mr Baldwin was not I. geißg-to violate that pledge, what was *|j, the diflFerenoe between them? Not a >'>! v single Dominion could giro Great Pn« yV*tain substantia) preference on manu. IS'factured articles in relation to the m. industries which they themselves were 'lktttaWiftbin& behind tariff m remkwrn tor aavantagM for food imports. Xmt the Imperial the QavifKpnunent would take' op the position -ipn food taxes which every Party took tjpttp when asking tor votes at the MflmnA Eleption. >ms Hie censnre motion waa qefeateij |>y Jpl9 to 84) votes. ff WTJSCTIQN AN» mmWAl* Ifct ; - CONFERENCE. H . ■ ffl'&mmn on chancrli^ows 5p, VJ .;.. ACTION. • tf;-- (Beeeived July 17th, 10.30 p.m.) fPV IQUmQH, Jnly 17, K|i ; ';|»e "Daily Telegraph" saysj mFjjb Philip Ssewden, in rwl» S||f' • oflt Protection from the »%jolwi«8B of the imperial Conference, JBffljriflh'the Pominion statesmen are am the" confercnee. What view mm mil take of his stata■llfal rtall soon be fenown. In the view Ki"ttj peat majority here it is in-