Empire Industries News Service no. 176: Professor J M Keynes [John Maynard Keynes, later Lord Keynes] and the McKenna duties; Manchester and safeguarding.

Empire Industries News Service no. 177: the volume of British trade.

Empire Industries News Service no. 178: the Empire Industries Association and Mr Baldwin's [Stanley Baldwin, later Lord Baldwin] policy; Lord Olivier [earlier Sir Sydney Olivier] and the sugar duties; the progress of safeguarding: artificial silk yarn and crude rubber.

Empire Industries News Service no. 179: distribution of trade; safeguarding and employment.

Empire Industries News Service no. 182: the "Daily News" and safeguarding; the balance of trade.

Memorandum [by a committee of Conservative MPs] indicating the practical objections to the scheme of Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] for encouraging the movement of Free Trade within the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/173/31.

Pamphlet issued by the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland on the silk and rayon duties.

Letter from Sir Thomas Taylor (Thomas Taylor & Co, Manchester) on the beneficial effects of the silk and artificial silk duties on the trade in Britain.

Letter from A B Ball, secretary of the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland Incorporated (19 Russell Square, London) to WSC on the bad effects on the silk duty on the abolition of the silk duties.

Cutting from the "Times": speech by J H Toulmin, chairman of Leyland Motors Ltd asserting that the withdrawal of the McKenna Duties would have a bad effect on the British motor industry.

Pamphlet: "The key to Empire trade" by Harold Pooley, director of the British Empire Producers' Organisation.

Leaflet [issued by the Federation of Lace and Embroidery Employers] urging lace workers to campaign against the repeal of the safeguarding duty on imported lace.

Reprint from the "Farmer and stockbreeder and agricultural gazette": article by G Holt-Thomas "explaining to the electors in urban districts that a tax on food imports would not result in dearer living.".

Pamphlet issued by the Empire Industries Association: "The real cure . . . the complete case for safeguarding British industries" by Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft.

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.