Empire Preference

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 22 August 1923, Page 5

Empire Preference

FREE TRADE V. PROTECTION. THE DOMINIONS’ WELFARE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N Z. Cable Association. ' (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, August 2i The Morning Post, editorially criticising the Chamber of Shipping memorandum, says: It may candid ly be admitted that the policy of developing each province in the Empire for the good of the whole would be best served by instituting free trade within tjjie Empire, but it is too late to discuss tbo question, because the Dominions have already decided that their manufacturing industries must be built up under a measure of protection. The Chamber’s statement that emigration will reduce the consuming power of England cannot be accepted without qualification. At present, over one million persons here are producing nothing. If an equivalent number settled in the Dominions they would be producing food, or raw material, and exchanging them for liritifh manufactures;

I SIR JAMES ALLEN’S VIEWS. BEWARE OF FREETRAOE. (Received 12.-10 p.m.) (United Sorvjico). ' London, August 21. Sir James Allen, interviewed regarding the Times’ shipping mernodurn of 18th June, said lit was impossible to oopeeivo of the Dominions acquiescing in the policy suggested, that emigrants to the Dominions should engage in work complementary, not alternative, to that carried on in Britain, (t would mean the abstention of the development oi manufacturing in the Dominions, and reliance on British goods. He was of opinion that increased migration would create a bigger demand for British and Dominions manufactures. The memorandum appears to advocate Imperial free trade,. which would require full investigation before being swallowed.