EMPIRE PREFERENCES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 184, 30 April 1924, Page 8

EMPIRE PREFERENCES

ON FOODSTUFFS AND RAW MATERIALS MEfiIORANDUM OF PRODUCERS’ ORGANISATION CONFERENCE DECISIONS ENDORSED The British Empire Producers' Organisation has submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer a memorandum emphasising that the overseas Empire regards the Economic Conference decisions as vital to the future, and endorsing the recommendations of tho , conference. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. London, April 28. In response to a request by Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the British Empire Producers’ Organisation has submitted to him a memorandum on the bearing of Empire preference on supplies of foodstuffs and raw materials, especially with reference, to the Economic Conference resolutions to be submitted to Parliament. The memorandum recognises that the conference decisions and suggestions are subject to approval by the Parliaments of the Empire, and emphasises that the overseas Empire regards the conference decisions as vital to the future. It declares that the present disorganisation of essential supplies within tho Empire calls for an immediate remedy, and recommends that preference should toe granted for Empire firms using Empire labour and materials, in all Government and public body contracts, and the. establishment of a produce board, without reference to the question of the advisability of an import tariff upon essential foodstuffs. It concludes by endorsing the recommendations cf the Imperial Conference. —Reuter.