Show To Combat Hawley Smoot-Hawley Rates C CONSERVATIVES A S SEE DANGERS IN AMERICAN RA RATES IS Use Duties as Basis of Campaign Against Liberal Party STRESS ECONOMICS Point to U. U S. S Annexation of Hawaii 1 I By GILBERT DRAPER United Press Staff Correspondent MONTREAL Que July 16 Ca Ca Canadian nadian conservatives es are espousing a high tariff riff designed to combat the Hawley Smoot rates in the United States as one of the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal weapons of their campaign to overthrow the liberal government in the July 28 23 elections Led by Rt Hon H R. R B. B Bennett the conservative party part has bas taken advantage of the he present t al agitation U n American tariff rates to bolster Its arguments for tor election but also argued that high Canadian tariffs would aid dominion indus Indus- tries The liberals liberal of or which Mackenzie Macken Macken- zie King the prime minister is Is the leader in reply to the conservative high tariff arguments are supportIng support- support Ing InS the plan of ot countervailing tariff tariff tar tar- iff ift levies set up by the last session of ot parliament FACES SEVERE TEST General opinion of neutral ob observers observers observers ob- ob servers Is that tho the liberal government government government govern govern- govern govern- ment is facing a a. severe test and may be in real danger of ot overthrow In the last house of ot commons the liberals had votes otes conservatives conservatives conservatives conserva conserva- tives 89 united farmers of ot Alberta 11 progressives 1 12 pro liberal 8 labor 3 Independents independents independents dents 2 Conservatives have attacked the record o of the Mackenzie King liberal liberal lib lib- hib- hib eral government with regard to la labor labor la- la bor and have ha drawn the name of ot John D. D Rockefeller into the cam cam- In a a. speech at Moncton N. N B. B I last t week wee Bennett read from re reports reports reports re- re ports of ot a commission discussing Mackenzie Kings King's services as an adviser adviser adviser ad ad- in labor disputes to the Rockefeller Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller found m n from 1924 to 1918 King was described as having viewed tho the labor problem as merely mere mere- ly one of securing workers a decent decent decent de de- de- de cent degree of ot physical welfare and andIn andIn andin In no sense a problem of ot democratizing democratizing democrat democrat- izing o of industry and freeing of ot wage earners from arbitrary con con- It was also charged that King I Co o on page 4 J CONSERVATIVES ON lr- lr r SEE DAGGERS IN t A AMERICAN El CA RAT RATES S j jr r Continued on from r page pac I. I did not advIse Mr might take ad advantage ad- ad vantage of ot the war var to defeat the aspirations ns' ns of ot workers Bennett who IF goi going g hi his first general genral election n as a leader tadar I conservative Uve p party rt h has hau campaigned cania cani- cani cam cam- a from coast COIt to Coat coast promising prom prom- ising Immediate relief for tor unemployment through the the tariff Lure L. L ure sure h lie he proposes to place in effect It If ft conservative e government is lire re turned He Ute tha the tar tar- Itt Iff policy orth f th government I was dictated by free trade trado nent ment in the western and l nd that its r result has hu been an ingre increase e eIn ein In n unemployment ent this the emigration ol or Canadians to the United Unite States in the approximately ton ten years that tho the liberals have been In Dower and an enormous increase ln in I IMp reports rs of ot m manufactured goods United States In la ot the first four tou months of ot iPSO 1930 Be Bennett nett said Ina in a speech In In n Quebec Canadians ba have ve gone to the tho United States and arid only 78 37 78 leave have returned They eft left Canada Can Can- ads ada because they had no work and nd nothing to eat Speaking of trade trado and Industry ho said that each day last year ear nt to the United States for goods purchased 2000 ODD 00 worth of ot which had b been eri manu manu- manufactured or partly manufactured QUESTIONS POLICY POLICY Is it not a 3 poor poor- policy he a asked l ed t to to export our raw taw jn materials and then hen send out Jut men then after them to them in a foreign country Into nto a a commodity which we after after- afterwards wards ards buy buy back again In a finished state tate In another speech Bennett told the he story of ot Hawaiian annexation hi by y t the e United States in connection claims that If It the tha WV wave of ports ports from the United States continues continues con- con we do not know what the future future has line in store for us Hawaii 1 he said ld was wu once an in Independent independent monarchy hy but the United States raised the thie tariff against l sugar ugar cane from there and to r raise this dut duty until a n. Hawaiian delegation was wae compelled to o go to Washington to make terms And under these tOrms tear ma Hawaii became a part of ot the United States Th The liberals s under tho leadership of or Mackenzie King In addition to standing upon the r record ecord co d of ot their almost ten years ears of or power are urging ur- ur Jug ing a a. r renewal newal of ot their mandate on their fiscal policy maintaining it will strengthen en Canada's Canadas position In Inthe th the forthcoming ing empire conference to be held in London in November HELD SUFFICIENT They They maintain that the tho tariff measures Introduced by j the tho King government in parliament last May constitute sufficient defense against th the Hawley Smoot tariff in the United Stats States These mea measures In in- in elude ludo tho the countervailing counter duties upon twelve articles including milk and potatoes potatoe under which the tariff on n those thoRe products entering Canada Canadas Is s raised automatically to the tho same figure which the tho United St States or any other country might place upon them hem The liberal stand is based upon a a. policy polley of enco encouraging Canadian trade rade with countries that ar art wiling willing will wili InG ng to tr trade dC with us according to the he prime minister He argues argues' that It t will wUI turn a large volume of Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian import trado trade from the UnIted UnIt UnIt- I ed d States to Great Britain and that In n return the markets of oC the tho British Brit Brit- Ish sh ish empire will look Jook with greater Brit I favor avor upon Canadian Roo goods I |