§ Mr. HUNTasked the Prime Minister, whether, in view of the fact that Japan and China are now manufacturing nations and are increasing the number and size of their manufacturing industries every year, and that their people will work on the average for a few pence a day, he proposes to take steps to protect our own working people and their wages from the importation of competing goods made by this cheap yellow labour?
§ Mr. BOOTHBefore a reply is given, may I ask if these Japanese people do not consider themselves to be a brown race, and not a yellow race?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe answer is in the negative.
§ Mr. HUNTMay I ask whether manufacturers in this country will be allowed to import these Japanese to work at low wages?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThat does not arise out of my answer.
§ Mr. KELLAWAYWill the Prime Minister lay papers, giving the wages under Protection in those two nations?