LABOUR AND EMPIRE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 June 1925, Page 7

LABOUR AND EMPIRE.

THE PREFERENCE ISSUE

AND FREE BREAKFAST TABLE

AIR MACDONALD INTERVIEWED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received June 20, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. Air Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview with the Daily Herald, says: Labour did not vote on the general question of preference, but on whether the preference proposals were consistent with a free breakfast table. Some thought they were, others that they were not. Some contended that once we gave preference to certain Empiregrown products, as against foreign products, we would never he able to cancel the duties without creating a charge of breaking a bargain with the Dominions; in short, that we should he saddled with food taxes permanently. He was of that view, and voted accordingly. Others contended that food taxes imposed this year conlcl he removed without aggrieving the Dominions. The Socialist creed says, that in each land the people’s wellbeing depends upon the wellbeing of the whole world. We must not play, the capitalist Imperialist game. Dominion Labourites were not supporting the Imperialists’ programme of political and economic exclusiveness.'