TRADE RESTRICTIONS
REDUCTION URGED
LEAGUE COMMITTEE'S
REPORT
GENEVA, September 18.
The Economic Committee's report to the League Assembly urges the reduction of trade barriers and other restrictions, though the committee does not believe a conference on international trade is opportune at present. It suggests that the Governments make a joint declaration on the lines of the tripartite agreement in 1936, affirming common objectives in the matter of trade barriers and setting out the manner in which they propose to proceed.
A memorandum by Mr. F. L. McDougall, published as an appendix, urges Governments to attack low standards of living so as to create an important alternative demand for the products of industries at present engaged in re-armament. Governments should agree to better conditions.and remuneration for labour and more extensive social services for the working class.' Purchasing power should be increased by keeping retail costs at reasonable levels. If improved standards of living could be brought to the Far East, it would, open new possibilities of recovery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1937, Page 9
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