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 \nBy  \nARTHUR GREENWOOD,M.P.(Paliamntary Secretary to the Mimistryof Healzh in the Labovur Government.)  \n\n| PRICR-POST FREE.  \u003Cbr>8.d.  \u003Cbr>1i  \u003Cbr>1 copy  \u003Cbr>12 copies  \u003Cbr>6  \u003Cbr>50  \u003Cbr>2  \u003Cbr>50  \u003Cbr>38  \u003Cbr>100   |\n| --- |\n\nPublished byTHE LABOUR PARTY,  \nTransport House(South Block),Smith Square,London,S.W.I.  \n308  \n2  \n0x22  \n# The Tory Government's HigherRates Scheme Exposed.*\n\nBy ARTHUR GREENWOOD.M.P.  \nLET me say at the outset that I regard the Tory Govern-ment's Higher Rates Scheme as a very disastrousmeasure.  \nThe Scheme is to be regarded,so the Prime Minister has said,as the Government's contribution to trade revival.Thevital question,therefore,is whether it will stimulate tradeand employment.  \nThe general idea of the Scheme is that if you reduce therates paid by productive enterprises,the relief afforded willgive an effective stimulus to industry.  \nWILL NOT REVIVE AGRICULTURE.  \nTake agricultural land.If we may judge by the attitudeadopted recently at the Conference of the National Farmers'Union,the farmers do not appear to think that the Govern-ment has done anything at all to promote the revival of thebasic industry of agriculture.  \nLet us turn to the hard case of the collieries.Accordingto the figures recently issued by the Mines Department,therewas,for the quarter ending September last,a loss on the coalsold in every coalfield in the country,the average loss for alldistricts being nearly 1s.5d.per ton.  \nWILL NOT SAVE THE COAL INDUSTRY.  \nThe President of the Board of Trade has said that the coalndustry,through remission of local rates and of railwayfreights,will get [3 millions a year,but the latest returns showthat for the three months ending last September,the totallosses in the mining industry amounted to nearly [3,320,000or at the rate of over [13 millions a year.  \nRelief amounting to 3 millions is clearly in-sufficient to put the coal industry on anythingapproaching an economic basis.  \nFOREIGN RIVALS WILL BE SUBSIDISED.  \nBut this is not allCoal which is exported is to be sub-sidised by lower freights,but coal produced for British manu-facturing industries(apart from iron and steel)is not to behelped in this way.The result will be that the foreignproducer of,say,textile goods,will be given a bounty whichwill not be enjoyed by British manufacturers,and theforeigner using our coal will obtain an advantage over hisBritish rivals.                          \nSo far as coal is concerned,then,the Govern-ment's Scheme will assist foreign manufacturersusing British coal,to the detriment of British in-dustry,without bringing any real measure ofreliefto our coal industry and those dependent on it.  \nWILL NOT SAVE COTTON TRADE.  \nNow let us consider the case of the great textile industryof Lancashire.The relief which it will obtain under theScheme will not enable it to reduce the price of its exportsby the 10 per cent.which is necessary,but only by 1 per cent.or so—an amount too small in itself to be of any appreciablebenefit to our chief export industry.  \nPROSPEROUS INDUSTRIES WILL GET BIG DOLES.  \nBut rate relief is not to be confined to depressed orstrugglingindustries.The estimated relief to the bleaching and dyeingindustry as a whole is [550,000 a year.Yet the net profitsof th","cbCailOxmRPxUTsf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailOxmRPxUTsf","pdf",403452,"English","# The Tory Government's Higher Rates Scheme Exposed\n## Will not revive agriculture\n## Will not save the coal industry\n## Foreign rivals will be subsidised\n## Will not save cotton trade\n## Big bounties for brewers\n## Subsidies for millionaire firms\n## Exchequer aid for profiteers","[{\"question\":\"What is the Higher Rates Scheme claimed to do by the Prime Minister?\",\"answer\":\"It is presented as the government’s contribution to trade revival by reducing rates paid by productive enterprises to stimulate industry.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author say the scheme will not revive agriculture?\",\"answer\":\"He points to the attitude expressed at a National Farmers’ Union conference, arguing farmers did not see the government as promoting agriculture’s revival.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author argue the scheme affects the coal industry?\",\"answer\":\"He claims that despite promises of remission, recent returns show large losses across coalfields, so the relief is insufficient to put the industry on an economic basis.\"}]","The Tory Government's Higher Rates Scheme Exposed - read online free | PDF",1789969420,12]