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THE UNEMPLOY- MENT SITUATION.

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Reference: Cabinet 36 (28). Con- clusion 5.)

3. The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

recalled that at their previous Meeting the Cabinet had referred to an enlarged Rating Reform Committee the Report of the Industrial Transference Board, together with the various proposals on the subject

made to the Cabinet. These proposals had included his own Memorandum (Paper C.P.-210 (28)) dealing

with Safeguarding and Imperial Preference. The

Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was Chairman of

the Committee, had doubted if the Committee could

usefully discuss a matter which could not be dealt

with without a prior decision of the Cabinet on

policy. The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

informed the Cabinet that he did not dispute this,

and that he was willing that the Committee should

not deal with it unleas and until it received

specific instructions from the Cabinet to do so.

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