BRITISH POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8145, 17 December 1904, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

•*■■ * ■ SPEECH BY MB CHAMBERLAIN. . CrmMf AaaoouTKw.] (Received December 16, ILB p.m.) > LONDON, December 16. - Mr Chamberlain, addressing an aadfe ence of 2600 persons at Lbnehouse, said that unrestricted imports rendered thai, , protection of labor impossible. Cobdca \ \ had opposed the protection of labor as of ; trade, but the country over-ruled tfct . notion) that men ought to be left to strug> gle against the overpowering pmsure «| drcumitanoML henoe the factory legislation, due to Lord ShaftMbury.' Free edm- , cation, small holdings and allotments, anot -. workmen's accident compensation ware all due to the Conservatives and Unioniata. The Compensation Act ought to be extended to every class of laborer, but it. cannot stand alone, at it imposed on employers additional obligations and increaa t ed the cost of production. We ihould. I he said, place our employer on an equatftf : with his foreign competitor, or waft* ' would fall and employment fail. Mr Chamberlain dealt next with aliens, ani recommended the establishment of an asylum in East Africa, under British #t international protection., He recapitulate^ his own fiscal policy, giving many hooeiy illustrations, and warning the Motherland of the urgency of an arrangement with her colonies for a constructive commer- , cial policy. It was not a question of? | loyalty, but of organisation. 1 THE RETALIATION PROPOSAL. LONDON, December 15. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking att Tewkesbury, supported Jlr Balfour's re- ' taliation proposali, which would substitute natural for artificial conditions and! assist in promoting British free trad* throughout the world.