UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN

TRADE EXTENSION THE ONLY REMEDY GOVERNMENTS POLICY (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 26. Mr. J. H. Thomas, Minister in Charge of the Unemployment Problem, was asked in the House of Commons whether it was the Government’s policy to develop and encourage the export trade as a permanent remedy for unemployment He replied that he had already said on more than one occasion that the only real and permanent remedy for unemployment lay in the extension of our trade both at Home and abroad. It was the Government’s policy to encourage by every means in its power the development of our export trade. With this end in view he was in constant touch with representatives of various industries in order to ascertain from them what were their difficulties and in what way the Government could properly help. Apart from his efforts in connection with the steel trade, he had already met representatives of the motor, ship-building, and electrical trades, and he hoped, as opportunity offered, to meet representatives of many other industries.

MOTOR MANUFACTURERS MEET MINISTER THE HORSE-POWER TAX (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. November 27, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, ■ November 26. Representatives of the British section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, headed by Sir Herbert Austin, met Mr. J. H. Thomas at the House of Commons this afternoon to discuss with him the needs of the British motor-car industry, with particular reference to the export trade. It is understood that the manufacturers suggest the abolition of the horse-power tax, which they state handicaps British efforts to compere with foreign manufacturers in the world markets. The delegation also stressed the necessity for continuing the tariff against foreign cars and urged the need for some definite statement of Government policy on this poipt.

TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE London, November 26. In the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. W. Graham, said that out of the total merchandise passing in the Empire’s external trade for 1927-28 it was estimated that 26 per cent, represented trade within the Empire.