TARIFF BARRIERS

Grey River Argus, 22 June 1925, Page 5

TARIFF BARRIERS

LABOUR ATTITUDE Mr MacDonald’s Comments. (Reuter). (Received June 20 at 5.5 p.m.) LON’DON, June 20. Air -MacDonald, interviewed by the “Daily Herald” (Labour) says:* Laboar did not vote on the general question of tariff preference,' but on the question of 'whether the preference proposals were consistent with a free breakfast table. Some Labourites thought that they were. Others thought that they were uot. Some contended that once wr gave a preference to certain Empire-grown pro ducts, as against foreign products, we would never be able to cancel such duties without creating a charge of breaking our bargain with the Dominions—in short, we should bp saddled with food taxes permanently. Mr MacDonald said hr was of that view. He therefore voted accordingly. Other Labourites had contended that any food taxes imposed this venr could be removed without aggrieving the Dominions. “The Socialist creed. ” hr rrmark. ed, “says that raeh land and each people’s wolLbeing depends upon the well-being depends upon the wellbeing of the whole world Wr must not play the Capitalist-Imperialist game. The Dominion Labourites are not supporting the imperialists’ programme of political economic exclusiveness. ’ ’ CANADA’S PROPOSALS. OTTAWA, June I<i. A Canada. West Indies conference for the purpose of promoting a new trade agreement between the two countries, has been opened here. The Premier, Mr MacKenzie King, in welcoming the delegates from Guiana, Bar. l-adoes, Trinidad, Windward Islands, the Bahamas, British Honduras, Jamaica. Bermuda, the Leeward Islands. Mr Robb, the Minister for Finance, is eh a inn an. Hon. Mr Wm. Morrison, of Jamaica, said he felt that a vast increase in the volume of their trade would be brought about by approaching the subject, as was intended, from a broad imperial viewpoint, and in the interests of the British Empire. CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN TREATY TO BE CONCLUDED. OTTAWA, June 20. The Canadian Finance Minister, Mr Robb, has given nltice of a bill r the conclusion of the Canadian. Australian tariff treaty. ,