LABOUR LEFT-WINGERS TABLE PROPOSAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19119, 11 July 1930, Page 1

LABOUR LEFT-WINGERS TABLE PROPOSAL.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. July 10. A number of Labour left-wingers have tabled an amendment to the Conservative motion of censure of the Government. They include Mr E. F. Wise, Mr J. Beckett, Mr J. Macgovern, Mr Oliver Baldwin and Miss Jenny Lee. Their amendment declares that neither Free Trade nor Protection is the remedy for unemployment, and asks the Government to rescue British agriculture from ruin by the following means:— (1) To establish import boards for the principal foodstuffs and raw materials which will enable a guarantee to be given of remunerative prices to British agriculturists for their produce, in order to avoid the disastrous effects of speculation and dumping. (2) To build up British exports by reciprocal arrangements in connection with bulk contracts. (3) To reorganise cn national lines the importing and exporting machinery of staple trades, in order to deal with unfair competition.

The Conservative motion, of which Mr Baldwin gave notice, read:—“This House, believing that a return to prosperity can best be promoted by safeguarding the Home markets against unfair foreign competition, and by the expansion of the exports market by reciprocal trade agreements with the Empire overseas, regrets that the Government have reversed instead of extending safeguarding, and have arbitrarily excluded the House from considering the imposition of duties on foreign foodstuffs, devised to obtain equivalent advantages for British manufacturers and agriculture, in Empire markets and elsewhere.”