SCOPE OF PROTECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 11

SCOPE OF PROTECTION

MR/ MACDONALD AT LEEDS

CO-OPERATIVE IDEAL

United Press Assoclatloo—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ' LONDON, January 23. "You're not our friend," shouted interrupters, retorting to Sir. Ramsay Mac Donald's reference to working men as friends when addressing 3000 people at Lends at the opening of a campaign emphasising the Government's achievements. Jeers and boos punctuated the speech. He said that the Government had done more to restore warmth, comfort, and blessedness than 100.0 hunger marchers, thereby provoking a storm of derision, opponents screaming and gesticulating wildly. ■■ . ■ . "Let us build up machinery for a cooperative world, one of the first pieces of which would be in relation to coinages," he said. "I am impatient at slowness, but the mills of God grind slowly.' . . ■ "If we are going to extend the Home market we must find new occupations for a large amount of labour hot likely to be employed in the old processes,'^ he added.' ' -;,'..- ; ' ;■■

Addressing the overflow meeting he was greeted with catcalls and shouts of "Scotch monster," whereupon Ke bowed and remarked to his supporters, "Let them howl. They, do not know what they are howling at. ;' ■ '

"We have to protect the Home market," he continued, "in which the Government is fully aware that unless protection is taken up by men of energy, determination, and enterprise, protection may make stagnant waters. I think it is time that the cotton industry showed more aliveness, accompanying co-ordination with efficiency in production and marketing."