PARLIAMENT ON TRIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18164, 31 October 1930, Page 7

PARLIAMENT ON TRIAL.

SIR O. MOSLEY’S VIEW. ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT. VIGOROUS ACTION REQUIRED. Unites Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, October 29. In the House of Commons Sir Oswald Mosley, Labour member for Smethwick, strongly attacked the Government for its failure to solve the unemployed problem. He said Parliamentary institutions themselves were on ; trial. Tile country was demanding vigorous action, yet they were simply drifting into a free trade versus protection campaign. If free trade were the remedy; there- would be no unemployment in Britain. If tariffs were the remedy there would be no unemployment in the United States.

A much more scientific remedy than tariffs wa's needed, said Sir Oswald. He believed that the only alternative method-was bulk purchase. It- was difficult to see how to apply this to the whole range of small manufactures. Coqld not there be a Commodity Board to deal with tariffs and important licenses upon which the producers and consumers would be represented? It would be useless to ask the Dominions to lower their tariffs against manufactures, but if there were established an economic secretariat, as advocated by the Trades Union Congress, it could allocate production between the various parts of the Empire and could then proceed a long way toward a conception of Empire economic unity sheltering a far higher standard of life than existed in other parts of the world.