Bargaining Basis Condemned

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6993, 1 November 1932, Page 7

Bargaining Basis Condemned

Canadian Liberals And Ottawa Agreements

GREATER TRADE FREEDOM URGED

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 8 p.m. MONTREAL, Oct. 30.

The Liberal party sees little of value, either to Canada or tho United Kingdom, in the Ottawa agreement, and will continue its stand against it," was a declaration, in effect, by tho Federal Liberal leader, Mr. Mackenzie King, in addressing tho Reform Club here.

He condemned the tariff policies upon which the agreements were based, and found in tho agreements a source of future irritation between the United Kingdom and Canada. He charged the Premier (Mr. Bennett) with forfeiting the independence of tho Canadian Parliament, and declared that the economic conference had hardly begun before hard bargaining had become noticeablo on all sides. Tho relations of several parts of tho Empire had not bgen more strained during the last hundred years than they had becomo while negotiating the agreements. This could have been avoided if the delegates had met in the proper spirit, to bring about freer trade. The conference should have ‘ 1 set an example to the world so that greater freedom of trade might take place." Agreements were reached which were sought to be made binding before those Parliaments had tho opportunity to pass an opinion upon them. The conference, Mr. King declared, was “based on the theory of bargaining to see how each might come out best for himself."