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 the National Union of Manufacturers, calling for the retention of the McKenna duties and protesting at loans to Germany; reprint of articles by Henry Page Croft on the failure of free trade and the need to safeguard industry; text of a speech by Sir John Beale on the difficulties of developing a new industry; letter from John Remer on imports from Germany; reprint of an article by Sir Harry Foster on free trade.