PREFERENCE QUESTION

Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 5

PREFERENCE QUESTION

! THE SOCIALIST CREED. j j EXPOUNDED BY MACDONALD. j (Received 1.25 p.m.) ' I LONDON, June 19. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, in an interview published in the "Daily Herald" says that Labour did not vote on the general question of preference, but whether preference proposals were consistent with the "free breakfast table." Some thought they were and j others that they were not. Some con- • tended that once preference was given \ \to certain Empire-grown products as against foreign products they would never be able to cancel duties without j creating a charge of breaking-, the bargain Avith the Dominions; in short, j that they would be saddled-with food taxes permanently. . He was of that ! view and voted accordingly. Others contended that the food taxes imposed this year could be removed without aggrieA'ing the Dominions. The Socialist creed said that in each land the people's well-being depended upon the well-being of the whole world. They must not play a capitalist-imperialist game. The Dominions' Labourites: were not supporting the Imperialists' j programme of political and economic oxclusiveness. —A. and N.Z.