SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 10

SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES

BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S POLICY DEFINED

(British Official Wireless.)

Rugby, November 21. Lord Arnold, in the House of Loaids, raised the question of safeguarding of industries and moved a resolution demanding from the Govejament a dear and unequivocal declaration of its programme in this respect. Lord Plymouth, replying for the Government, said the declared pollicy of the Labour Party was to prohibit the importation of goods produced under sweated conditions, and was a form of protection infinitely more clumsy than the procedure being applied by the Government. The safeguarding duties had justified themselves. They had increased employment and production in the industries to which they had been applied. He pledged that the Government would produce no taxes on food. The policy of the Government in regard to safeguarding had been entirely consistent and logical from the beginning. It had no intention of introducing protection through the back door of safeguarding duties. But it was perfectly clear that at the General Election- in 1924 the Government received a very definite mandate to proceed with these duties. The Government intended to continue its policy on the same general lines as in the past.