FISCAL POLICY.
BRITISH LABOUR PARTY
IMPORTANT CHANGE PENDING
PROHIBITING SWEATED GOODS
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Aug. 7, 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 6. The Standard) states that the Labour Party is on the eve of an important change in its fiscal policy. _ A private meeting of the party 'unanipiously approved of a proposal to boycott and prohibit sweated goods from entering Britain. If the party’s full conference in September adopts the proposal it becomes the settled policy. A committee appointed to investigate fiscal questions recommends that goods produced by workers working longer hours than the Washington Conventions allows should he regarded _a s sweated and prohibited from entering the countries which signed th© convention. The committee believes the warning would he salutary, and would, result in raising the status of workers in the offending countries, thereby eliminating unfair competition.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 August 1925, Page 9
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