OVERSEAS TRADE MAKES MR THOMAS UNEASY.
’(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, November 8. Mr J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, was the chief guest yesterday of the Council of Dominions Newspapers, at luncheon at the Hotel Cecil. “ I should be deceiving you,” he said, “if I did not say that I am unhappy about our trade relationships with our dominions. When I know that in spite of all the sentiment, and the preference given, in one industry alone —motor-cars—our dominions are taking from another country more than double the total products in our own country, I want to know the reason, and I want to change it. “It is no good saying * Buy Britisff goods at the expense of vour own comrnodities.* What you have to say is. * Develop your own industries, and we will give you all the help that British capital and British labour can.* “ I have failed in three months to bring about a revolution. I have failed to solve automatically a problem that has puzzled a lot of people for a number of years; but I am not going on the dole and I am not going to be unemployed yet. In spite of all that you see I have still faith in this country.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 10
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