London, Oct. 28.
During the debate on the Address from the Throne in the House of Commons this afternoon the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, said that, despite the attention fastened the economic side of the Imperial Conference for Party reasons, the most important and the most' permanent work was the applying of the various declarations made at the 1926 Conference as regards the constitution of the relate ships That work was nearing the end.
The Premier informed the House that British exports to the Domitions would be much greater if
existing preferences instead manutactarers fully profited by the of the Domini increasing their prefer-He declared that Empire free trade was an absolute fraud. The only tariff Britain could impose which would be worth anything to the Dominions was on food through a wheat-tax. Mr. Rameay MacDonald forcefully asserted: "We feannot do The Premier aid no country in the world published unemployment. figures as Britain did. He added that a big American industrialist had told him that if a similar practice were adopted in the United States ten to twelve millions of unemployed persons would be shown
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