MEMBERS VOTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 3

MEMBERS VOTED

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1;. SNOWDEN REPLIES TO ?ORMER MINISTERIAL COLLEAGUE RITY FAVOURED DOLE CUT

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Rec. Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. 1 15 out of 20 Labour members Cabinet voted for the immedilposition of a 10 per cent. retariff as an alternative to the ut was revealed by Mr. Philip en, in the course of his reply . William Graham's broadcast ion that the Labour Cabinet ot decided in favour of a retariff. Snowden said that Mr. Grand Mr. Arthur Henderson were rongest Cabinet supporters of riff. Mr Graham informed the it that a 10 per cent. tax on actures and some unmanfacimports would yield £25,000,larly and that a tax on all imwould yield £60,000,000. Cabself voted 15 to five in favour : first proposal and five to 15 l ibt levying a duty on all imjj including food and raw maI Mr. Graham supported both I sals. I ■ scheme was afterwards dropr Ir Snowden continued, as unan- ?, was impossible and it was fearF1 at persistence would break up I Jabinet. i {} What Bankers Said I Snowden also replied to Mr. ; im's statement that the Prime | ter and Mr Snowden told the >o let that Mr. Harrison and the A Yorlc Reserve Bank insisted on a >r r cent. cut in unemployment pay condition of their granting a Neither Mr. MacDonald nor :lf had ever been in communie31 with Mr. Harrison. What hap- [ was that the Bank of England ted that the Ameriean Bank in1 on an assur.ance that the Budj yould be balanced. They never g red or suggested a cut in unemuent pay. Neither did the Bank ngland. lat they said was: "You* mjust | ice the Budget if you want to a re foreign confidence." It was e, ;he Government to deeide what imies to make and what taxation lpose. en the time came for the final j ion about the 10 per cent. cut in lployment pay the Prime Min- ■■ and himself were authorised by net to inquire from the Bank of land whether the programme, h totalled £76,000,000, including 10 per cent. dole cut, would enthem1 to obtain the necessary , Receiving an affirmative reply, : than half the Labour Cabinet i in favour of including the dole • Release From Secrecy •..Thomas Johnson, Under-Secret-of Health for Scotland in the iur Government, in a speech in rence to Mr. Snowden's reeent osures, stated that if Mr. Snowcontinued to publish half-truths it Cabinet happenings it would ie duty of former members of the >ur Cabinet to ask the King to ase them from their oath of secto enable them to disclose what happened during the closing days he late Government. r MacDonald in a speech at Tam;h, referring to the tariff quessaid: "I have never agreed with Baldwin politically, but I know so well that if he says: 'I am g to give you a pledge that you I are going to work out a plan ction,' then I would take Mr. Balds word."