London, May 15, With 1,700,000 "unemployed persons and the revelation that Empire trade has dropped over three per jeent. during the first quarter "of 1930, advocates of "Empire Free Trade" are now bu Yesterday the well-known newspaper magnate, Lord Beaverbrook, told a mass meeting at Eastham: "No sane people in their senses will '£0 on with these conditions, They will insist on sweeping changes, even changes involving public men, Labour, Liberal and Conservative "We want Empire Free Trale now," he added.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the leader of the Conservative Party, is _at a "Home and Empire campaign.'
Lord Reading, in the course of speech yesterday, said that safeguarding was wanted not only at Home, but also for Imperial pur-He foreshadowed that "in a will end the day of Britain being the dumping-ground for the cheap labour of the whole: world."
On the other hand, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr, Philip Snowden, made some. forceful remarks on trade depression in a speech at a banquet given by the British Bankers' Association yesterday evening. After -referring to the 20 per cent,—drop in the exports of the United States during the first quarter of 1930 and. to the unemployment in that country which, he declared, was "much more serious than can be gathered from the occasional references the British Press," he said sure that high tariffs haps in no small degree" responsible for the depression of world trade—Reuter.
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