7 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 2

We cannot, like some of our Free Trade contemporaries take

the White Paper pubTished by the Board of Trade on Wednesday au tragique. The paper unfolds the scheme of the Government to safeguard industries which are subject to exceptional foreign competition. It will be remembered that Mr. Baldwin in his election address declared that, while a general tariff was no part of the Unionist programme, his Party were determined, if they were returned to power, to safeguard the employ. ment and the standard of living of our people in any industry in which they are imperilled by unfair foreign competition. They were to do so, he went on, by applying the Safeguarding of Industries Act or analogous measures.