HOMELAND CONSERVATIVES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1930, Page 5

HOMELAND CONSERVATIVES

BALDWIN v. BEAVERBROOK FOOD-TAXES SPLIT [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, June 22. A Conservative party meeting has been convened for next Tuesday, as a sequel to attacks made on Mr. Baldwin’s leadership by the protagonists of the Empire Free Trade movement. _ There has not been a Conservative party meeting of this kind for seven years, when after his defeat at the 1923 general election, Mr. Baldwin received an enthusiastic vote of confidence. • -nr The main question at issue is Mi. Baldwin’s attitude towards the programme of Empire Free Traders, particularly on the question of food taxes Mr. Baldwin as a compromise, some’ months ago, accepted the proposal of Lord Beaverbrook, who leads the Empire Free Traders, to refer to Iho people the question of any agreement. involving food taxes reached at a specially summoned Imperial Conference. ho has repeatedly stated that food taxes will not figure in his piogramme at the next general election. His utterances have been regarded as luko warm by the Empire Free Traders and Lord Beaverbrook, in a letter-to the “Daily Mail’’ on Tuesday <.'?id that the Empire crusaders could expect little assistance from the Conservative front bench. He appealed to all Conservatives for subscriptions to enable them to place a. candidate in those constituencies in which the Empire Free Trader "was not actively supported.