PROTECTION CAMPAIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 7

PROTECTION CAMPAIGN

MR BALDWIN’S PROPOSALS. EMERGENCE OF DIFFICULTIES. Visor Assoolstioa —By Xslsgroph—CopyriirM LONDON, November 5. Evidence of the difficulties which are likely to be experienced by Mr Baldwin in carrying out his policy of protection without taxing food was furnished by a resolution at a meeting of the Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture in London protesting against the unequal treatment of agriculture as foreshadowed in Mr Baldwin’s Manchester speech. The Chairman (Lord Strachie) declared that if the Prime Minister's suggestions were carried out the agricultural interests would be sacrificed to the interests of the manufacturers.—Reuter. REQUEST TO MR LLOYD GEORGE. LONDON, November 7. The Lancashire Freetraders have invited Air Lloyd George to reply to Mr Baldwin at Manchester. —A. and N.Z. Cable. EMPIRE PREFERENCE. TO ENCOURAGE SETTLEMENT. DOMINION MARKETS ESSENTIAL. LONDON, November 7. (Received Nov. 7, at 8 p.m.) Air Neville Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer), speaking at Great Harewood, said : “Wo intend offering _ the dominions the security of the British market to enable them to place orders for locomotives and machinery so that they can take more settlers. It is the prospect of a new dominions’ market which has decided the Government’s pohey now being developed in the Economic Conference.” The press generally, apart from the strictly party organs, awaits fuller details of Mr * Baldwin’s programme. In the meantime there is much speculation on the attitude of Mr Lloyd George, Mr Churchill, and Lord Birkenhead, which is not yet known. The Daily Express, in defining its attitude on Mr Baldwin’s proposals makes the following points:— 1. That where any British industry is manifestly being destroyed by foreign dumping it ought to be protected immediately, but so far there is no satisfactory proof of industries being destroyed in this way on any scale justifying a general tariff. 2. That to carry protection without real preference is to rob the tariff movement of its soul and its ultimate success. There must be preference on wheat and meat, which the Government so far refuses. The Daily Express finally believes that following on the collapse of the European markets a new economic entity for our export trade must be found largely within the Empire, but this market cannot be consolidated without a sweeping measure of Inter-Imperial preference. —A. and N.Z. Cable.