SAFEGUARDING POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 68, 29 September 1928, Page 9

SAFEGUARDING POLICY

EXTENSION DEMANDED NO INDUSTRY BARRED BrltlsU Official WIreIMRUGBY, 27th September. Great interest was displayed by th« delegates to the Conservative Party Conference at Yarmouth to-day in resolutions bearing on the proposal for the extension to additional industries of the safeguarding of industry machinery. A section of the Conservative) Party has recently made representations to the Prime Minister that the benefits of the Safeguarding of Industries Act should be extended to the iron and steel trades, and several resolutions before to-day's conference bore on this aspect of the question. The debate, however, was mainly confined to- a resolution calling for the widest possible extension of safeguarding of industries, consistent with the Prime Minister's election pledge. With amendment that the iron and steel industry should be given special consideration this resolution was carried. Sir Henry Page Croft declared that the addition of iron and steel, the Yorkshire textile industry, hosiery, and earthenware to the list of, safeguarded industries would result in one hundred and thirty thousand additional people being employed within the next five months. Mr. Baldwin did not attend to-day's meeting, but the tenor of the debate was conveyed to him, and, will probably be discussed in his spech at the public meeting to-night. It is anticipated that he will reaffirm the policy 'aid down in his letter to the Party Whip early last month, when he stated that the experience of the last four years might enable the Government to simplify certain details in the procedure, and that no manufacturing industry would be barred from presenting ita case before the tribunal appointed to determine whether the safeguarding duty should be imposed. *