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Scope and Contents Papers on taxation and industry, particularly relating to free trade and the McKenna duties [tax on luxury imports], including: notes by LSA on unemployment and the resulting Labour election victory [? of 1924]; pamphlets on free trade, protectionism, the problems of industry, Empire trade figures and tariff reform; Silk Association enquiry into the silk industry and report of evidence given to the Board of Trade into the industry; trade figures, including iron and steel output; papers from...

Scope and Contents Includes: paper given at the conference of the League of Nations Union, by [William] Lionel Hichens, Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, on hours and wages in relation to unemployment; press-cutting of an article by LSA on wage-fixing; abbreviated draft by LSA of the King's speech, on foreign and colonial policy, unemployment, agriculture and pensions; prints of articles by LSA for the National Review on free trade and socialism, how Britain won and lost industrial supremacy, and...