FOOD TAXES
ATTITUDE OF EMPIRE LABOUR PARTIES.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.)
UUSTRALIAX-XEW ZEAU.ND C.48L8 ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 20th June,' noon.)
LONDON, 19th June. Mr. Ramsay MiicDonald, in his weekly interview with the "Daily Herald, says : "Labour has not voted on the general question' of preference, but whether the preference proposals were consistent with a free breakfast table. Some thought they were, while others thought they were not, and some contended that once we gave preference to certain .Empire-grown products against foreign products,' we will never he able 1o cancel such duties without eventing .1. charge ot breaking n bargain with Hie Dominions. In shni-r, we arc .saddled with loot I faxes yeruianentlv. With that view we volcd aecordins.ly. Others contended that fond (axes were imposed year by year, and could be removed without. .iKcrievinjs the Dominions. The .Socialist creed says that in each land the people's well-being depends on the well-being of tlio whole world. We iinisl not, play 11,0 Ciipifnlist-linperal-lst game. The Dominions' Labour i'arlios ;,!•,; not 5np,,,,,.!,-,,,, [1,,. lmju-.-i.-iHsis' jii-oMi-Mini,,.: [ nolilkr-i ui;d cvuiwmiv exWUSl.V.CUtstp.'-
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 7
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173FOOD TAXES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 7
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