RECIPROCAL TRADE

Northern Advocate, 22 August 1929, Page 5

RECIPROCAL TRADE

WITHIN THE EMPIRE CANADA FALLS SHORT. MORE RECOGNITION URGED. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 8,28 a.m.) MONTREAL, August 21.

In an interview, the Lord Privy Seal of Britain, Mr J. H. Thomas, said that Canadians might derive considerable satisfaction from the knowledge that they would be making a substantial contribution towards alleviation of the sufferings and misery among Britain’s unemployed by purchasing a larger proportion of their requirements from that- country..

“We buy 50 per cent, of your wheat,” said Mr Thomas, “and it is not given to us cither. On the other hand, you arc buying three times as much 1 from the United States of America in raw manufactured products as you: are purchasing from us. If our people’s spending power could be increased, it would mean much towards a solution of our greatest problem. ’ ’ Mr Thomas intimitated that he had had a conference with the Dominion Cabinet at Ottawa during his stay there on the subjects of emigration, the Empire Economic Conference and better trade relations within the Empire. He considered that satisfactory progress had been made.