BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11662, 29 October 1923, Page 8

BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED

PROTECTION SYSTEM ATTACKED LABOUR PARTY’S VIEWS. Australian and N.Z. Gable Aanociatlon(Received October 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 26. Mr Arthur Henderson, speaking at Yeovil, said: “Mr Baldwin wants a verdict on the general question of protection as the only solution of unemployment. That challenge the Labour Party unhesitatingly accepts. Mr Baldwin’s confession of fiscal faith is a confession of utter bankruptcy. Regarding unemployment, I deny that protection, anywhere at any time, Iras solved the problem of unemployment. The protective system is no guarantee against unemployment. To attempt to cure unemployment by administering a dose of poison from lvfiiell we are already suffering is a negation of sound sense and good statesmanship. The protectionist system means a system of taxation of the most vicious kind, levied without regard to sound principles or sound finance, and imposing additional burdens on an already overburdened people.” STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION DOMINIONS APPROVAL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received October 28, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. Among the Dominion delegates there is a consensus of opinion that Mr Baldwin’s proposal regarding the tariff is a step in the right direction, and that while Britain seeks (as she has perfect rielit to do) to conserve lier own market, in first place for own producers, she will ultimately concede her Empire partners preference on foodstuffs against foreign competition. GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTED IN ENGLAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assofiation (Received October 29, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 28. The ‘"Observer” says that one thing is certain. Mr Baldwin’s Plymouth speech means a general election within six months. The unemployed have been told that the tariff is a partial remedy. Air Baldwin’s Administration will perish in ridicule and execration if the winter is allowed to pass without an attempt to invoke that remedy.