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During the session President Hoover vetoed seven measures, including the first relief bill, a Democratic tariff bill, an omnibus pension bill, a bill for a pre-arranged wage scale on public works...
Habana y Trenton. American Cigar Co., now a subsidiary of American To bacco Co., last week was jumping the U. S. tariff wall. The duty on finished cigars is greater than that on raw tobacco, so certain of American Cigar's factories are being moved to Trenton, N. J., where it is expected that better labor conditions will also lower production costs. The raw tobacco will be cured, processed, stripped, blended and rolled in Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled...
...Tariffs are a political issue. The Royal Family is supposed to stand aloof from politics. Last week Edward of Wales broke precedent, spoke out against Great Britain's new tariff system, profoundly stirred the Empire...
This royal bombshell, exploded on the eve of the Imperial Economic Conference scheduled to meet at Ottawa July 21, placed the Royal Family in a most peculiar position. The British public has been led to hope and expect that at Ottawa a tariff wall would be thrown up around the Empire with free trade among the dominions and with the mother country. Nothing short of a royal retraction could wipe out the fact that the Empire's heir apparent had placed himself squarely in opposition to this policy and had taken a political stand...
...Quebec and Montreal, opponents of Premier Bennett call him a social climber who has made his way into high British Conservative circles on frequent visits to the mother country. The Conservative group will attempt to steamroller through at Ottawa a tariff policy of Empire isolation?the policy against which Edward of Wales came out last week...