NOT PROTECTION
SAFEGUARDING SYSTEM
BRITISH FISCAL POLICY STATEMENT IN LORDS British Official Wireless. RUGBY, 21st Nov. Lord Arnold, in the House of Lords, raised the question of the safeguarding of industries, and moved a resolution demanding from the Government a clear and unequivocal declaration of its programme in tlris respect. Lord Plymouth, replying for the Government, said that the declared policy of the Labour Party to prohibit the importation of goods produced under sweated conditions was a form of protection infinitely more clumsy than the procedure which was being applied by the Government. The safeguarding duties had justified themselves. They had increased employment and production in the industries to which they had been applied. He gave a pledge that tho Government would produce no taxes on food. The policy of the Government in regard to safeguarding had been entirely consistent and logical from the beginning. They had no intention of introducing protection through the back door of the safeguarding duties. But it was perfectly clear that at the General Election in 1924 the Government received a very definite mandate to . proceed with these duties. The Government intended to continue its policy on the same general lines as in the past.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9
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200NOT PROTECTION Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9
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