Labour and protection, a series of studies

Henry William Massingham

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• England
• Tariff

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TECTION AS A WORKING CLASS POLICY The General Case Protection(i) ; (2)
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T. FISHER PATERNOSTERUNWIN, u, BUILDINGS, LONDON, B.C.ANDLABOUR
PROTECTION
A SERIES OF STUDIES
EDITED BY
H. W. MASSINGHAM
London
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Paternoster Square
1903All Reserved.RightsPREFACE
ofIT is to manufac-easy persuade groups
isturers that Protection to their advantage.
Each in turn to come withingroup hopes
the and as the boundsarea,protected though
the toof Protection spread, gain special
until it cease alto-interests lessens may
is not at firstthis effect visible.gether,
the manufacturer evenMoreover, may profit
that to hit hisfrom the tax seems industry.
He raises his the atprices beyond point
which the tax affects and leaves thethem,
and consumerretail trader the to theadjust
double of cost.enhancement Protection
saves him brains and Itenterprise. post-
the of obsoletepones necessity replacing
and sets those unwiseplant, generally up
and economies on which theunhealthy
natural man tends to Buttrading rely.
how does workman tothe stand gain by
Protection? "The anddirect effectobjectPREFACE
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of tariffs,"protective says Henry George,
"is to raise the of commodities. Butprice
men who work for are not sellers ofwages
commodities are sellers of labour.; they
insell labour order thatThey they may
commodities. How can an increasebuy
"
in the of commodities benefit them ?price
The advocates of areProtection, indeed,
seldom drawn from the friends of labour.
In modern their is muchGermany origin
the same as it is in
;England they belong
to that section of the landed and commercial
classes which is most hostile to labour move-
ments. In the United States centrethey
in the and include the directorsTrusts,great
-of some of the worst rewarded toil in
America. New the home of Pro-York,
is also the seat oftection, startling misery
masses andof its workers,among great
of conditions of that have becomehousing
in London.intolerable
-"In the industries ofhighly protected
"officialMassachusetts,"says Henry George,
declare that the cannotreports operative
a without the work of wife andget living
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Protection or Free Trade, by Henry George.