NOT UNANIMOUS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 11

NOT UNANIMOUS

Labour and Manifesto VIEW OF INDEPENDENTS (Rec. December 8, 9 p.m.) London, December 8. The council of the Independent Labour Party, under the chairmanship of Mr. J. Maxton, has disagreed with Sir Oswald Mosley’s manifesto “to avoid a nation-wide crisis” as immediately benefiting the working classes. Mr. Maxton is continuing negotiations with Mr. Arthur Henderson.

Eighteen members of the House of Commons, Including Mr. A. J. Cook and Mr. Oliver Baldwin, have signed Sir Oswald Mosley’s manifesto, which sa>s that the natural balance of trade should be developed under the commonwealth plan of mutual advantage not conflict ing with foreign trade. “We should alm at building within the Common wealth a civilisation high enough to absorb the production by modern machinery, which must be largely insulated from the wrecking forces elsewhere,” says the manifesto. FEWER UNEMPLOYED Prediction for New Year FISCAL FREEDOM URGED British Wireless. Rugby, December 7. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, expressed the opinion last night that the opening months of the New Tear would see a steady, if slow, reduction of unemployment.

Replying to criticism of the Government’s decision to allow the Dyestuffs Act to lapse, thus removing the Import duties on imported dyestuffs, he said that the textile Industries, employing from three-quarters of a million to a million people, compared with seven or eight thousand in the dye industry, had represented to the Government that the restrictive effects of the Act handicapped them. He was convinced that a policy of fiscal freedom was on the balance better and safer for a great exporting country.