A MANDATE ON PROTECTION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1897, 6 December 1923, Page 5

A MANDATE ON PROTECTION.

MR. BALDWIN'S THEORY. A WAR ON TRUSTS. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, December 5. Mr Stanley Baldwin, on the eve of the election, has issued a manifesto surveying the post war conditions in Britain, resulting in trade depression, which has led to unemployment. With a view to coping therewith he invites a mandate on his protectionist policy, since any other alternative of continuing palliative measures cannot provide a permanent remedy for the evil.

Mr Baldwin does not believe his tariff proposals would result in a general increase in the price to the consumer, but if monopolists keep prices high so that no benefit reaches the consumer, the Government will deal with same. He points out that trusts exist even under free trade, and it would be easier to deal with combines in our own country than trusts created by foreigners abroad. LABOUR ON PREFERENCE. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, at Aberavon during a whirlwind tour of his constituency, accompanied by Dr Addison, asked what preference would be possible) after £266,000,p00 for food and raw materials was deducted from £318,000,000 worth of imports from the Dominions. He declared the Labour Party was amazed at the way the Government had neglected the colonies other than the self-governing flAes, and concluded that representatives would attend the Imperial Labour- Conference next year to discuss the whole question of Imperial trade, immigration, and economic relations.