PREFERENCE QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1925, Page 8

PREFERENCE QUESTION.

VIEWS GF BRITISH LABOUR. By Telegraph.—Press Asan.—Copyright. London, June I'9. Air. Ramsay AlaeDonald, interviewed •by the Daily Herald, says that Labour did not vote, on the general question of preference, but- on whether the preference proposals were consistent with the free breakfast table. Some thought they were, others that they were not. Some contended that once we gave preference to certain Empire-grown products a« against foreign products we would never be able to cancel the duties without creating a charge of breaking a bargain with the Dominions; in short, that we should be saddled with food taxes permanently. He was of that dew and voted accordingly. Others contended that food taxes imposed this year could be removed without aggrieving the Dominions. |i ‘The Socialist creed says that in each land the people’s well-being depends upon the well-being of the whole world,” said Mr. MacDonald. WVe must not play the capitalist Imperialist game.” He added that Dominion Labourites were not supporting the Imperialists' programme of political and economic exclusiveness.