OBJECTS STATED
THREE MAIN POINTS
DIFFICULTIES RECOGNISED
(Received 11th December, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 10th December. The objects of the Empire crusado are stated as follow:— (1) To develop the industries and resources of the Empire to tlie fullest extent, making the Empire a single economic unit and rcmoviug as far as possible nil obstacles to freedom of trade between the constituent parts. (2) To make the resources of the Empire, both financial and material, more fully available to producers, distributors, and consumers in every portion of the Entire. (3) To erect such tariffs between the British Empire and foreign countries a3 are found necessary to Tealisc these ideals.
Tho conveners state that they take no sides in the historic controversy between Free Trade and Protection. They recognise the difficulties to be overcome and the local interests to be considered, biit they believe that means can be found to achieve these objects without depriving the Empire of the freedom of trade essential to/rapid and profitable development.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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165OBJECTS STATED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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