§ 6. Brigadier-General Sir ALFRED KNOXasked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the position of the peasant farmers in India he will make 1694 representations to the Indian Tariff Commission in favour of an import duty on imported raw cotton, and the limitation of the duty on imported cotton goods to cloth of lower counts, for the manufacture of which Indian-grown cotton is suitable?
§ Mr. BENNThe function of the Indian Tariff Board is to consider questions referred to them by the Government of India, and, so far as I know, the question of the protection of raw cotton has not been so referred.
§ Sir A. KNOXIs it not passible for the right hon. Gentleman to make representations to the Tariff Board in India?
§ Mr. BENNI think the better avenue would be for the persons interested to exorcise their light of making representations for themselves.
§ Sir A. KNOXWould not the change be in the interests of the workers in Lancashire as well as the producers in India?