SAFEGUARDING DUTIES
AIDING BRITISH INDUSTRY POLICY OF CONSERVATIVES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. Lord Arnold o£ Hale, in the House o£ Lords to-day, raised the question of the safeguarding of industries. He submitted a motion demanding from the Government a clear and unequivocal declaration of its programme in this respect. The Earl of Plymouth, in replying for the Government, said the declared policy of the Labour Party was to prohibit the importation of goods produced under sweated conditions. That was a form of protection infinitely more clumsy than the procedure now being applied by the Government. The safeguarding duties had justified themselves. They had increased employment and production in the industries to which they had been applied. Lord Plymouth gave a pledge that the Government would not tax food. The policy of the Government in regard to safeguarding had been entirely consistent and logical from the beginning. It had no intention of introducing protection “through the back door” of the safeguarding duties. It was perfectly clear that at the general election of 1924 the Government had received a very definite mandate to proceed with these duties. It intended to continue its policy on the same general lines as in the past.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 9
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