CAPITAL LEVY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5

CAPITAL LEVY

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S ATTACK.

LONDON, 27th November. V iscourit Birkenhead opened a coun-try-wide tour rivalling that of Mr Lloyd George's by a descent upon Sir. Ramsay Macdohald's seat, Aberavon. The greater part of his speech was devoted to the danger of a capital levy. He said it was universal knowledge that the Labourites, had held a meeting to decide whether to jettison. this "old man of the seas, and hy a narrow majority decided to retain the levy. Keferring to tariffs, Viscount Birkonhead said the message Britain would send to other nations would not be provocative, but simply this: "You have imposed tariffs in order to preserve your own market for yourself. We have home markets too. It was certain that if we protected our markets; foreign manufactur>rs_ would establish factories here, and jritish workmen Would draw wages intead of doles. Mr. Maedonald, speaking at Abervon later, said the Tories had brought 'cwn Viscount Birkenhead to preach the oapel of Protection, but if twenty Birsnheads were let loose it would only be the advantage of the Labour Party From Aberavbri, Viscount Birkenhead -nt to Cardiff, where he had a rerriarkle reception. He addressed three usand people in the Empire theatre . ?ort Talbot.