HARMFUL ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 9

HARMFUL ACTION

INDECENT HASTE

MR. KING PROTESTS

(Eeeeived 18th September, 1.40 p.m.) OTTAWA, 17th September. As a protest against the Government's tariff proposals, Mr. Mackenzie King moved an amendment to the motion to go into Committee of ways and means, stating that:

This House regrets that the Government has seen fit at a special session, called to deal only with unemployment, to table a proposal for great increases in Customs taxation on a wide range of commodities under circumstances which preclude the House and the country from securing adequate information regarding the proposals and prevent Parliament from disenssing them. That in the opinion of this House the tremendous increases in taxation proposed will not end' unemployment, but will inevitably increase the cost of living and also increase the cost ,o.f production in tho 'primary industries of agriculture, fishing, mining, and lumbering, thus making it more difficult for Canadian producers in these industries to meet world competition in the marketing of their products.

Speaking on the tariff proposals, Mr. Mackenzie King said: "I wish to protest in tho strongest language possible against the time at which amendments to the Customs tariff, have been brought down and the circumstances under which they have boon introduced. The Government was seeking expedition so that its members could go to the Imperial Conferenc. Common decency and courtesy alone would demand that any changes in the tariff against Empire goods might be left over until after the Imperial Conference." The' House gave a third reading to tho Government measure to amend the Customs Act in respect of the dumping clause.