BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

IN THE COMMONS,

MOTION or CENSUIiE

(Official Wireless.)

(Received this day at noun.l RUGBY, July 17

Air Stanley Baldwin moved a vote of censure on the Government in the House of Commons this evening. The motion declared the House, believing that a return to prosperity could "only be promoted by safeguarding home markets against unfair competition, and by expanding.export markets by reciprocal trade agreements with the Empire overseas, regretted the Government had reversed the policy of safeguarding instead of extending it,, and and arbitrarily excluded from consideration the imposition of duties on foreign food stuffs, devised to obtain equivalent advantages for .the British manufacturer and agriculture in British markets and elsewhere. Mr Baldwin invited Mr Snowden to state the policy the Government intended to follow at the Imperial Conference.

Mr Snowden, replying, said Government would be no party to food taxes or taxes on raw material or protective duties They would enter the Imperial Conference barring no questions from discussion, but it would be made abundantly clear that they would approve of no final conclusion which involved this country in a food taxation policy or general protectionist policy. Outside that, there were party questions of a great importance which the Imperial Conference could discuss. Regarding safeguarding, ho declared the Opposition could not point in any of the safeguarding industries to any marked effect which the duties had in improving the position for trade. Mr Lloyd George supported the attitude taken by the Government. MR. SNOWDEN’S REPLY. (Received this dnv at noon,) LONDON, July 16. In the course of his reply to ' Mr Baldwin in the Commons, Mr P. Snowden said there could be no question of co-operation with the Copservatices on the basis of Labour sacrificing its principles.