IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
VIKWS O-l-’ LABOR LEADER
(Australian and N.Z Cable Association.! (Received June 21, 3 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. Air AlacUonakl*, interviewed by the Daily Herald, says Labor did not vote on the genera! question of preference, but -whether the preference proposals were eousistenit with a* free hreaikla.st table: some thought they were, othersthat they Were not,. Seme contended that once, we gave preference to certain Empire- grown products as against foreign products, we would never he able to- oaareel the duties without creating a charge of breaking a, bargain, v.ith the .Dominions; in short, that we should he saddled with food taxes permanently. He was of that view, and voted accordingly. Others contended that, the food taxes imposed this year could he removed without ’ aggrieving the Dominions. The Socialist creed says that in each land the people’s well-being depends upon the well-being of the whole world. AVe must* not play tlie capitalist aiul Imperialist game. Dominion Labor it es were not- supporting the Imperialist programme of political economic exclusiven.es..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16761, 20 June 1925, Page 13
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