Economic policy
Found in 1289 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [1930]
Pamphlet issued by the Empire Industries Association: "The real cure . . . the complete case for safeguarding British industries" by Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft.
(Untitled), [1930]
Reprint from the "National Review": "The triumph of safeguarding" by Sir Henry Page Croft.
(Untitled), [1930]
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.
(Untitled), 10 Mar 1930
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.
(Untitled), [1930]
Extract from a speech by Ernest Walker, managing director of Wolsey Ltd, hosiery firm, arguing that Safeguarding has been beneficial for the hosiery trade.
(Untitled), 21 Aug 1928
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.
(Untitled), Mar 1930
Statement of the progress made by the Austin Motor Company due to Safeguarding and the Conservatives' support for the measure.
(Untitled), 06 Mar 1930
"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.
(Untitled), Feb 1930
Supplement to the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" containing graphs illustrating labour statistics.
(Untitled), 03 Mar 1930
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.
(Untitled), c 1928
Summary of a statement on the bad effect on Morris Motors Ltd of the temporary repeal of the McKenna Duties in 1924.
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1930
"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and Safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.
(Untitled), [1930]
Conservative Party handbill on the benefits to industry of the Safeguarding, McKenna and Silk duties.
(Untitled), [1930]
"Safeguarding and prices. Liberal lies answered." Published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
(Untitled), May 1929
"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.
(Untitled), Dec 1929
Memorandum stating the case for the Safeguarding of industries. Contains detailed statistics and statements by industrialists and politicians.
(Untitled), 08 Apr 1930
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.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1930]
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.
(Untitled), 13 Mar 1930
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.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1930]
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.
(Untitled), [Jan] [1934]
Draft of an introduction to a book on the employment exchange system. Sent with CHAR 2/204/5.
(Untitled), 12 Feb 1934
Letter from Charles Foot (Nayliring, Piesse Siding, Western Australia) to WSC explaining their proposals for inter-Empire agreements to carry out large public works schemes.
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1934
Letter from William Archbold (Selwyn Croft, Cambridge) to [WSC] blaming the leaders of industry for the economic depression and suggesting that better management would be ensured if directors were required to take a substantial share holding in their companies.
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1934
Letter from Rene Leon, Wall Street, New York, to WSC, on the desirability of achieving dollar-sterling stabilisation. Charging the Bank of England, as Manager of the Equalization Fund of manipulating the pound sterling.
(Untitled), 1934
Notes on the inflationary policy of the Bank of England since the abandonment of the Gold Standard in Sep 1931 [hand-written, on Chartwell notepaper, initialled T.W.].