manifesto, the authorship of attributed to Sir Oswald ex-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, hus been issued. It is signed by only 17 M.P.'s, including Mr, Oliver Baldwin, the son of the Conservative ex-premier, and also by Mr, A. J. Cook, the Secretary of the Miners', Federation.
The main proposals consist of the following: the formation of an emergency Cabinet of five to carry out national planning and to set up an organi to develop new and modernize existing industries; to establish an import control board for food-stuffs and a commodity board for the control of imported manufactures; to make trade agreements with the Dominions: a public utility organization to bull houses in the same manner as homes were built for munition workers during the Great War.
The manifesto condemns the Conservative tariff proposals as sheltering inefficiency, but recognized that for the working of the proposed commodity board a tariff would be more convenient than a licence in many cases—Reuter, dian delegates, expressed the. view that the will of The people of Burma should be a determining factor, ut he did not think there was an_unanimous desire for separation from India, "The position of Indians la, Burma, he declared, would requis" careful consideration.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as Chairman, interpreted the desire of the Conference to be that the committee should not attempt to draft constitution for the New Burma, Dut that it should take note of certain conditions which had to he met in the process of separation, Tt should further recommend,' he said, how the process could best be careied out—whether by a committee, commission or anything else.
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Encouraging progress has already been made by sub-committee No. L of the Indian Rourd-Table Confer fence, which is dealing with questions of Federal structure.
The problem presents 50° many issues that are more of less cot-related that a preliminary clearing of the ground was essential. This has been effected in the course of an extremely business-like discus sion, during which certain specific questions tock shape, Dee. 5.
Further progress was made today. The Federal Structure Sub-Committee completed the work of provisional classification of subjects [which might be regarded as federal, and then began consideration of the ponent elements of federation, The provincial constitution subcommittee had a further meeting today. A general discussion with particular reference to the abolition {of dyarchy having left no doubt that such a course was favoured, the subcommittee proceeded with the consideration of questions that arose the practicability of abolishing the distinction between reserved and transferred subjects were accented.
The Burma sub-committee held its first meeting to-day under the chairmanship of Lord Russell, who emphasized the desirability of encouraging in every way the prospect of continual cordial relations between India and a separated Burma, Wireless through Reuter.
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