Show Protection Experiment Helps Irish Industries DUBLIN Feb 6 G By A. A P P.- P. Protection for Irish home homo indus indus- tries Introduced in the last budget by th the free state finance minister avowedly as an experiment to see whether it worked and whether it warranted a a. permanent place in the governments government's policy is said to have proved successful The Federation of Irish Industries Industries Industries Indus Indus- tries has reported that tha t the ta tax on shoes has stimulated the shoe trade arid and largely increased the output of ot offie ott t the fie e factories The confectionery trade and the bottle making trade are said to have been similarly helped In the tobacco trade the duty Im Imposed tm- tm m- m posed for revenue purposes has op operated op op- ernt c as a tariff and has resulted ed edin In the establishment in the free freestate freestate freestate state of ot English firms anxious to I retain their Irish trade by coming within the tax barrier They have spent on buildings and the factories have given employment employment employment employ employ- ment to 1000 hands |