26 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 16

FREE TRADE OR PROTECTION [To the Editor of the SeccrAroa.]

Sin,— Free Trade in goods seems to involve free trade in wages, while protected wages almost necessitate protected impiirts. Many of our Free Trade friends have made sacrifices of their principles in the past by agreeing to the protection of wages.

Distasteful as it must be, cannot they now, in the present crisis, make a further sacrifice, as the Labour Ministers have done, and consent to protect imports ?—I am, Sir, &e.,