Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 1 | Delegates to Trade Meet

DELEGATES TO TRAD TRADE MEET V. V A 4 I S 4 x A s Hi c j je e Baldwin British government delegates to Ottawa conference Shown conference Shown above are J. J H. H Thomas dominions secretary Sir Philip Lister Cunliffe-Lister co colonial colonial co- co lonial secretary Stanley Baldwin lord president of the council Neville I cO-I Chamberlain chancellor of the exchequer Walter Runciman a a. noted British trade expert Canadian Farmers Seek S-eek Lower Tariff I Will Present Demands at Imperial Conference in Ottawa B Br By Associated Press OTTAWA Ont ant July l 14 LoWered 14 Lowered LoVered t tariff walls and stabilization stabilization sta sta- of the the- Canadian dollar with the p pound un unc sterling will wilt be e the the chief hi l d demands mands made upon the British imperial conference here next week by Canadian farmers it was indicated today The advance guard of or orthe the farmers farmers' host already has begun to arrive The farm representatives from Ontario Ontario On On- tario Quebec and the prairie provinces provinces provinces inces plan a great meeting in the Coliseum Coliseum Coliseum Col Col- at Lansdowne park at which their program will be whipped into shape for presentation I The farm delegation will inform the government of actual farm conditions conditions con con- the call for this meeting said and will explain that since the farmer is the nations nation's best customer we cannot look for the return of better better better bet bet- ter times until his purchasing power is restored The united farmers of Ontario sent out a folder in which the organization organization tion contended the experiment of buyIng and selling seTting at home behind high tariff walls has been tragic Considering that Great Britain is the greatest single singie importing country country country coun coun- try in the world it said and knowIng knowing know know- ing we must buy from buy from her if we wish to sell to her the delegation will ask that every possible effort be made to encourage the maximum exchange of Canadian agricultural products for fOl British manufactured goods bearing In mind that nothing be done to permanently permanently per per- injure favorable trade with countries outside the empire 0 LONDON July 14 V Seven W-Seven Seven BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish cabinet ministers on the way to Ottawa for the imperial conference will have a personal problem of of- economics economics eco eco- in addition to the more serious serious se se- se- se rious issues they are to discuss with the dominions The thrifty BrI British sh treasury allows ithem them only a day for personal expenditures in addition to the necessary necessary necessary essary official outlay The allowance allowance allow allow- lance ance Is 2 for junior ministers and only 1 for me members bers of the staff