IF TARIFF PROPOSALS BECOME OPERATIVE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 56, 30 November 1923, Page 7

IF TARIFF PROPOSALS BECOME OPERATIVE

« MANUFACTURERS’ OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT ♦ TO THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL HANDS FOREIGN FIRMS’ NEGOTIATIONS FOR FACTORIES Twenty-two manufacturing firms in England offer to employ £6,043 additional hands if Mr. Baldwin’s tariff proposals are brought into operation. In anticipation of a Conservative triumph inquiries are being made regarding factories and factory sites in Britain where goods now imported will be made. Mr. Baldwin says it is the duty of everyone to strive for a better standard of life, and foi this nothing is better than regular employment.

Br Telegraph—Pbess Association, -copyright.

(Ecp. November 29, 7.45 p.m.)

London, November 29.

The tariff reformers purpose countering the effect of I. and R. Morley s (circular and detail twenty-two manufacturing firms in London, Birmingham and elsewhere, who offer to employ 36.043 additional hands if Mr. Baldwin’s proposals to protect the h°me market become operative. The British Electrical Association alone promises to employ 15,000 additional hands. „ „ .. The “Yorkshire Post” says there is accumulating evidence that. in anticipation of a Conservative triumph, inquiries are being made regarding factories and factory sites m Britain •where goods now imported yul be made. A number of American and European firms have commenced negotiations for the purchase or rental ot factories. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., MR. BALDWIN URGES A BETTER STANDARD OF LIFE REGULAR EMPLOYMENT THE BEST MEANS ■ (Rec. November 29, 8.30 p.m.) | London, November 29. ’ Mr. Baldwin made a sixty-five minutes speech to a great gathering at St. Andrews. Later he addressed an overflow meeting. He said that in Glasgow 18 per cent, of the people were living in one-roomed houses, and 18 per cent, were out of work. It was the duty of everyone to strive for a bettor standard of lite. For this nothing was better than regular employment. It was an unproved assertion that an increase in colonial trade would decrease our foreign trade. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LORD DERBY ON HIGH TAXATION DEATH DUTIES A CAPITAL LEVY (Rec. November 29, 8.30 p.m.) London, November 29. Lord Derby, at Liverpool, answering a taunt that he was a wealthy man. said: “I am not living on my income. but on my capital. Taxation is now so high that the time is coming when I may have to consider leaving Knowsley, Which so long has been the home of mv ancestors.” He added that there was a capital levy already in existence in the form of death duties. “When I succeeded my father. I took twelve years to pay the duties.” — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S TOUR OF LANCASHIRE AMUSING DESCRIPTION OF LORD DERBY t.Rec. November 29, 8.30 p.m.) London, November 29. Mr. Lloyd George during the day covered a great part of Lancashire. Commencing at Leeds, he spoke at every stopping place, where supporters clambered on empty railway trucks to see and hear him. He haft the train at Accrington, and addressed a crowd of ten thousand. I.ater addressed five thousand at Preston. Other meetings were held at Blackburn, Burnley, and Oldham, to which place he motored in a blinding snowstorm, and made his ninth set speech. At Preston he gave an amusing description of Lord Derby ns “an erring son of Lancashire,” who nightly gave an exhibition of looping the loop. One day he is upright for the principles of free trade, the next he lias his head down to his heels for protection. He would have fallen out long ago if he had not been strapped in. Mr. Lloyd George added: “Lord Derby about like "a harpooned walrus. He said last night that I'iench p statesmen prefer to deal with ' Mr. Baldwin rather than with myself. I am sure they do.” (Laughter.)—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

“A RECONCILIATION HONEYMOON”

VISCOUNT BIRKENHEAD’S QUIP

(Rec. November 29, 3.30 p m.) London, November 29. Viscount Birkenhead, who is following Mr. Llovd George, speaking at Leeds, described Mr. Lloyd George’s recent travels as a reconciliation honeymoon. Life would 1® intolerable without its reconciliations. (Loud laughter.) After doing more than any other nation to win. the war, Britain was incomparably in a worse position than any cf tho conquering nations. No protected nation had such chronic unemployment. When be read Mr. Llovd George’s speeches he tolled to find a single minute given to the consider ation of this all-important pro-

bletn. It was difficult to believe the country’s troubles could be solved by brilliant sarcasms and vivid raillery. Free trade was a mad, senseless handicap, which the Government, with the help of the electors, meant to end. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. “CONSCRIPTION FOR EVERYTHING’ MR. CHURCHILL’S VIEW OF SOCIALISM CRec. November 29, 7.45 p.m.) Londbn, November 29. Mr. Churchill is having a harassing time at Leicester, owing to continual interruptions at his 'meetings by Socialist s Mr. Churchill meets interrupters with considerable courage and quickness. He incidentally said that Socialism was fatal to individual liberty. (“What about conscription?” shouted a Socialist.) “Socialism means conscription for everything,” was Mr. Churchill’s retort.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MR. ASQUITH AT PAISLEY FIRST DUTY TO ABOLISH McKENNA DUTIES (Rec. November 29. 7.45 p.m.) London, November 29. Mr. Asquith at Paisley received a patient nearing nt his first meeting, but there was much ironical shouting and cheering during his later speeches. He said the abolition of thp McKenna duties, which were the sheet anchor of the Protestionist cause at this election, would be the first of the duties of a Liberal or Labour Government. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , FRONT OPPOSITION BENCH MR. CHURCHILL PREDICTS A CHANGE London, November 28 Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at Leicester, sa’d. “Whether we will get Mr. Baldwin off the front bench I do not know. But I am certain we will get Mr. MacDonald off the front Opposition bench.” —Reuter.. GREAT LIBERAL REVIVAL MR. LLOYD’ GEORGE SURE OF VICTORY London, November 28. Mr. Llovd George, speaking at Leeds, said that travelling up and down the country he had found a great Liberal revival: therefore, victory was assured. Nero sent messages to his friends when ho hnd lost favour, telling them to cut their veins. That was practically the choice given to the country—between tariff reform, which destroyed industry. and Communism, which destroyed the whole fabric of prosperity. He described, the Liberal Party as the “feeding party,” and the Socialists as the “bleeding party.” Mr. Lloyd George predicted a vast majority of votes in favour of free trade. The Tories proposed to give trade a wooden leg and allow it to limp along on the tariff. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LORD DENMAN ON LABOUR EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA London, November 28. Lord Denman, speaking at a Liberal meeting at Croydon, said that when ho was in Australia, Labour had been in office for two years, and, as Ministers, administrators, and- heads of Departments, they were every bit as good as their Liberal opponents. So when people to-dav spoke in rather unqualified and unmeasured terms of the Labour Party at'Home, and said they were not fit to form a Government, and that kind of thing, he. to be quite frank, did not believe them. —Reuter. (Lord Denman was Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth from 1911 to 1914.1 _ GOVERNMENT’S INACTION CRITICISM OF PRIME MINISTER’S SON London, November 28. There was a piquant incident nt a Labour meeting at Buckingham, when Mr. Oliver Baldwin. the Premier s son. criticised the Government’s inaction. The only thing the Government had done in the past year, ho said, was to wrongfully arrest a number of persons and then have to pay compensation. “Talk about protec*h© ■nnl* ■nroteotion we mart is

protection against a Government like that!” He advocated a Labour Government on the lines of that ruling in Georgia. South Russia, which was governed by the Social Democratic Party.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

EMPIRE’S GREATNESS

MR. THOMAS VOICES VIEWS OF LABOUR

London, November 28.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, speaking nt Barrow. said that those who call the Labourites "Little Englanders,” declaring that they do not believe in the Empire. were deliberate liars. “We want to see the Empire great: but we do not measure its greatness by bloody victories and the size of its Army and Navy.”—Reuter.