TARIFF PROPOSALS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1930, Page 5

TARIFF PROPOSALS

PROTEST BY OPPOSITION

LEADER

[United Press Association.—Ey Electric Telegraph—Copyright], (Received this day at,, 1.0 p.m.) OTTAWA, September 17. As a protest against the Government tariff Mr MacKenzie King to-day moved an amendment to the motion to go into committee of ways and means, .stating “The House regrets the Government has seen fit at a special session called to deal only with unemployment proposals, to submit great increases i'll customs taxation on a widewide range of commodities, after circumstances which preclude the House and country from securing adequate information regarding the proposals and prevent Parliament discussing them, in the opinion Of this House the tremendous increases in taxation proposed will not end unemployment hut will inevitably increase the cost of living and also increase production costs in primary industries, agriculture, fishing, mining, and lumbering, thus making it more difticult for the products of - these industries to meet world competition in marketing their products.” Speaking on the tariff proposals, Mr AlaeKenzie King said, “I wish to protest in the strongest language possible against the time at which the amendments to the customs tariff have been brought down and the circumstances under which they have been introduced. Government was seeking expedition so that members could go to the Imperial Conference.’Common decency and courtesy alone would demand that any changes in the tariff against Empire goods might he left over until alter the Imperial Conference. The House to-day read a third time, the Government measure to amend the Customs Act in respect to the dumping clause.