BRITISH POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS

AIMS' OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY

MR BALDWIN ON LABOR RULE

PROGRESS SET BACK BY FIVE' 1 YEARS. anted Preßß Assn, by-,EI. Tel. Cony right) ' y " LONDON -Feb.- 5. ; Addressing a meeting of 3000'Com sorvatfiv.es iii the-GoNseum Thfeatre,' Mr Stanley Baldwin said;— .“Our individual' progress' has! been set back live years in tlie- oiglit months of the Labor Government.

"‘Regarding tlie naval conference we wish the Government well. We are as keen on the progress of disarmament as any other party. , - . . > “The Conservatives''will -not have anything to do with a tariff truce. There earn be, no such, thing. would he like a , country armfed with bows iuid arrows’ arranging' with cmmtr.es with model’ll artillery not In add anothcr how and arrow to Ts ■" m*.ur:en.i. for two years. We never .used modern artilleJ-y. It is time wo did. If we arc to cope with unemployment ,ve must have a free hand in safeguarding the mint it’s ma uni aeture<. .-.-i, -■ e n 1 nig has been successful beyond all eriti- • ism in tho limited sphere in which it inns been employed. He did not know whether the day would come when the British Empire' would become one mid iik<* the...' .8. guarded by one tarill _ with a vaist area of free trade within, hut lie assured those present that the course :h> recommended wo'EM he the 'safest' and surest to take ii they wished to reach the common goal- of ' rn'il'"! Empire. He was. convinced that the proper method o'; iiporoaelinig the- ■ ivVestiou of'unifying the British E-m----piro lay primarily through tlie industrial side. Every effort .should he iniule. without delay between the industries of this country and corresponding industries in the. Dominions and India. It was most important•that nothing should be done to diminish the value oi the limited preference Britain accorded., the Dominions. ( No European commitment* should he; made which wmild prevent Britain expanding its policy of preference in order to supplement and tortile tlie ruler-Imperial (lade agreement.

BRITAIN’S FISCAL POLICY

United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright j

(Received Feb. 6, 9 p->'-) LONDON. Feb. 5

The eonunittee ol Eifipirc Crusade al a special meeting unanimously n solved with regret that .it cannot regard .Mr Baldwin’s, declaration of. policy as alfording an adequate solauon'to the present industrial and, :eyrieiiltural problems and is con-' voiced the new markets are tial. Tile British. Government should’ have complete nseal freedom to nci_otiaii-' with* the Dominions -ami- Indui. including power to impose iln* necessary duties v oii raw material and foodslulN not produced in theI'.mipi’e. OUTCU.ME UN RATIONALISATION. Lulled Preßß Assn. by El. Tel. Copyrigm (Received Deb. 6, IJ .30 p.m.J bUNIvON. Feu. 6. Practically only two leading journals seize upon the new ideas embodied in Air. Baldwin s speech. *1 no rest adopt the traditional protection’ versus Free trade attitude The Daiiy News' regards Mr. Baldwin's niter-imperial / arrangenients, under which the markets oi the Empire will apparently he divided upon mutually agreed terms between the industrialists here and the Dominions, both equally pro-. U'cted against ’-foreign coinpeiuion by. safeguarding, as the most subtle anil probably the most praciieable lorn) in which Imperial protection has yet been advocated. The paer Is of opinion that tlie voice is that of -Mr. Baldwin and the brain proNably that ui Lord Mclehett. . . !

Both "rile Daily News ami the Daily Telegraph say amplification l . need before a ilecided opinion is able to be expressed upon tins plan, but the latter adds that, as far as it is practicable, it is manifesty de,s*.ruble. It: is obviously-.the -oiiteouic of the ralioiialisatioii movenienl and amounts to an ingenious attempt t<> combine with Imperial eo-operation and Imperial preference, interlocking arrangements for the production and sale of Imperial goods. This feature of the Unionist programme must depend primarily upon tlie favor shown thereto In* leading industrialists here and in Ihe Dominions.