TARIFF PROPOSALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 8

TARIFF PROPOSALS

DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT

CRITICISM BY LABOUR

AMERY ASKS FOR MORE

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LONDON, 4th February.

, In the House of Commons, in the debate on the tariff proposals, Major Atleo (Lab.), following Mr. Neville Chamberlain, said that the Labour Party were neither bigoted Protectionists nor Free Traders. They believed that tariffs were an ineffective weapon. The Ministry had introduced a 'general utility tariff which Mr. Chamberlain, himself envisaged would lead to a tariff war. He did not believe that bargaining was a good method of cementing friendship with the Dominions. The scheme amounted to a dolo to separate industries, and would lead to the same ramp as in other Protectionist countries. There was no protection for the worker, nothing to ensure efficiency.

Mr. Amery (C.) said that this was a day of deliverance rather than of fulfilment. It was a mere adumbration of a tariff^ a fledgeling, not a full-grown bird. Nobody could imagine that 10 per cent, would make an appreciable difference with foreign manufactures entering the country. Many industries were in dire straits and time was pressing. He hoped that the Advisory Committee would be instructed to produce ;in a-few weeks an ad valorem emergency scheme that could be developed into a workable system of protection He congratulated the Government unreservedly on its statesmanlike course in preparation for. the Ottawa Conference.