EFFECTIVE PROTECTION.
COMMONWEALTH MINISTERS' VIEW. Mr. Tudor, the Commonwealth Minister for Customs;' at n. meeting in Melbourne last week, defined tho effective protection that the Government proposes, if' returned with a majority, to give in its new tariff, as a system which should afford protection to cover tho difference between wages paid in Australia and tho wages of tho lowest-paid country elsewiiere. If it cost in wages in other countries .£lO to produce »CIGO worth of goods and in wages in Australia, ,£4O to produce ,£IOO worth; then there should be at least 30 per cent, of protection for Australia. Many industries m Australia to-day, however, had more than that. Not only more than the difference in wages, but more than the whole cost of production. On some lines he would not give protection, because they had effective protection. Now, he would do his best to get for tho match industry (a factory exists in his own district) a rate of duty equal to tho difference between wages paid in Australia and tho lowest wages rate elsewhere.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 3
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177EFFECTIVE PROTECTION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 3
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