EMPIRE PREFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18414, 22 June 1925, Page 9

EMPIRE PREFERENCE.

— ; ♦ » LABOUR LEADER'S VIEW. (BT CABLE—CRESS ABSOCIATIOK —COfYUIQHT.) AND N.ii. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Juno 19. Mr Ranisny MroDonald, interviewed by the "Daily Herald," said Labour did not vote on the general question of Preference, but whether tho Preference proposals were consistent with the iree breakfast tablo. fc>omo thought they were, others that they were not. "Some contended," he srid, "that once we gave preference to certain Empire-grown products,, as against foreign products, we would never be able to cancel the duties without creating the charge of breaking a bargain with the Dominions; in short, that we ■would be saddled with food taxes permanently." Mr Mac Donald said he was of thai view, and (voted accordingly. Others contended that food taxes imposed this year could be removed without aggrieving the Dominions. Tho Socialist creed said that the -wellbeing of tho people of each land depended upon the wellbeing of the whole world.

"We must not play the Capitalist, Imperialist game with the Dominions," he said. ' "Labourites are not supposing the Imperialists' programme of political economic csclusiveness."