PREFERENTIAL TRADE

Evening Star, Issue 12028, 28 October 1903, Page 6

PREFERENTIAL TRADE

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

FREE LABOR ASSOCIATIONS. THE NEW POLICY SUPPORTED. A GFPvMAR view. ;-*.)N DON, ticiobei 27, The Congre*. of National Fre-j Labor A«socrations, represent'a g a membership of half a million, adopted by 24 to 18 a resolution welcoming Air Chamberlain's Preference proposals as being in the best interests of workers and calculated to ensure the prosperity of the Motherland and the colonies.

BERLIN, October 27,

The ‘ Koinische Zeitung ’ declares there Hit} muny pis;ns of the ultimate jtucccss of Mr Chamberlain’s policy. [The above confirms the opinion of manv private advices from thoughtful observers, who think that in the event of a General Election within a few months Air Chamberlain would bo defeated. Parties, however, would be so numerically weak that- a second dissolution would be inevitable, and be followed by the return of Air Chamberlain with a working majority.]

AUSTRALIAN PREFERENCE

LONDON, October 27,

‘J he Times, in a special article dealing with a Preferential Tariff with Australia. declares that on the material side preference on Australia’s rapidly-growing trade in foodstuff’s would encourage the hardest worked part of tlie population in a sounder and more scientific, and therefore more prosperous, farming in Australia. The latter would thus gain by the knowledge that their kinsmen in Britain were, not so selfieh and moneygrabbing as the loan-link policy hitherto made them appeal - .

THE COAL SUPPLY

LONDON, October 27.

Mr Markham. M.P.. although a Freetrader, in a letter published in ‘The Times,’ predicts that, according to the present consumption and rate of export, the thick steam coal seams of Britain will be practically exhausted within the present generation. He adds that coal, being capital, ought jn tlie fiscal controversy to be treated differently from other exports, inasmuch as it cannot be replaced.

MR BALFOUR'S CAMPAIGN

SIR M. HTCKS-BEACH SUPPORTS

LONDON. October 27.

Received October 28, at 8.10 a.m.)

Mr Balfour and Sir M. 11 icks-Bcacb attend a banquet to Air U. E. Colston, M.P. for the Thornbury Division of Gloucestershire, at Bristol on the loth pros. Sir M. Hicks-Beach supports Air Balfour's poliev. NEW CONDITIONS AND NEW DUTIES. LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, at 7.59 a.m.)

Air Chamberlain, in a letter to a municipal candidate at. Birmingham, expressed his regret at relinquishing the great work whereon he was engaged at the Colonial Office, but he was sure that it was the best course to take for tlie sake of the cause he had at heart. It was the workers' cause, amd unless the country was content to fall Ixick into the condition of a second Holland and he a distributing, not a manufacturing, nation, the people must make up their minds to meet the new conditions.

A RUSH FOR SEATS

LORD STANLEY’S DILEAIAIA.

LONDON, October 27, (Received October 28, at 7.59 a.m.)

There are 55.000 applications for the 5,000 seats at the Hippodrome (Liverpool) to hear Mr Chamberlain speak to-night under the auspices of the Working Men’s Conservatcd Association.

Lord Stanley, speaking at Howick, said that bread and meat were the rawest of raw materials, and he was not prepared to see their cost raised. He was nnahle to say whether he might not eventually follow Mr Chamberlain. If be did, he. would Yell his constitutents so. He did not fear, however, separating from his party if he thought they were- pursuing a wrong course.

MR ASQUITH ARGUMENTATIVE.

APPROVES THE COAL EXPORT.

LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, at 8.26 a_m.)

Mr Asquith, speaking at Newcastle, said that the building trade had grown 60 per cent in thirty years, and coal 100 per cent. The carriage on foreign goods in British ships was worth ninety millions annually. and ought to be added to Britain’s exports. If foreigners paid the taxes na bread, meat, and dairying products, why not a tax cai'inabe-ar bactnx?