Reprint from the "National Review": "The triumph of safeguarding" by Sir Henry Page Croft.

Reprint from the "Devon and Somerset News": interview with John Heathcoat-Amory [a director of John Heathcoat & Co, lace manufacturers of Tiverton, Devon] on the damage to the industry which would follow the removal of the Silk Duties and the Safeguarding Duty.

Letter from S H Sagar (Carrington and Dewhurst Ltd, manufacturers, Grove Mills, Eccleston, Near Chorley [Lancashire] to Mr Hacking on the bad effect on his firm of the threatened withdrawal of the Artificial Silk Duties.

Extract from a speech by Ernest Walker, managing director of Wolsey Ltd, hosiery firm, arguing that Safeguarding has been beneficial for the hosiery trade.

Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": report on a letter from Sir Herbert Austin to Sir Henry Page Croft on the beneficial effects on the Austin Motor Company of the safeguarding afforded by the McKenna duties.

Statement of the progress made by the Austin Motor Company due to Safeguarding and the Conservatives' support for the measure.

"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.

Supplement to the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" containing graphs illustrating labour statistics.

Circular letter from W H Leslie Pinkham, honorary secretary of the National Association of Fabric Glove Manufacturers of Great Britain, on the threat to the industry posed by the possible withdrawal of the Safeguarding Duties.

Summary of a statement on the bad effect on Morris Motors Ltd of the temporary repeal of the McKenna Duties in 1924.

"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and Safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.

Conservative Party handbill on the benefits to industry of the Safeguarding, McKenna and Silk duties.

"Safeguarding and prices. Liberal lies answered." Published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

"Safeguarding has not raised prices (official)". Handbill published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations quoting from Board of Trade reports on various industries.

Memorandum stating the case for the Safeguarding of industries. Contains detailed statistics and statements by industrialists and politicians.

Circular letter from W O Burrows, assistant secretary of the Federation of Lace and Embroidery Employers' Associations, enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/173/166-167 and describing the damage which the British lace industry would suffer if the United States government increased its customs duty on lace imports.

Petition to James Ramsay MacDonald from employers and workers in the lace and embroidery trades of Nottingham and district praying for a continuation of the safeguarding duties. Sent with CHAR 2/173/164-165.

Comments by WSC on the report of the committee appointed by James Ramsay MacDonald in July 1924 to examine the case for the Safeguarding Duties.

Newspaper cutting: sympathetic report of the activities of the United Empire Party, which is opposing the Free Trade doctrines of the Labour and Liberal parties.

Letter from James Helmore, private secretary to the President of the Board of Trade, to [Violet Pearman] on the duty chargeable on asphalt and bitumen in India. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/194/58-59.

Carbon copy of CHAR 2/194/56-57.

Leaflet published by the National Workmen's Constitutional Council: "No surrender of India. Manifesto from workers to workers.".

Letter from [9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim) to WSC on: WSC's query about the King of Egypt; the formation of a committee of the House of Commons to decide what constitutes a money bill with regard to its passage through the House of Lords; Marlborough's belief that WSC should enforce economy in government departments rather than impose new forms of taxation. Encloses CHAR 2/152/131.

Memorandum by 9th Duke of Marlborough (Blenheim) arguing that the imposition of small personal economies on heads of government departments will encourage them to make more general savings. Sent with CHAR 2/152/130.

Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC on WSC's speeches [on the Finance Bill] and the need to keep the City of London on the Government's side.