BRITISH POTTERY TRADE ALARMED

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1919, Page 8

BRITISH POTTERY TRADE ALARMED

; According to a London cable message to : American papers, the British pottery ' trade, has. taken alarm at the appearance • of German china in the stores of the potj tery district, at prices which manufactur- ' ing potters declare they cannot approach. I Even in London, with its important pot- ■ : tery industry, German ware is being offered bolow the cost of local manufacture. . " Thes'o German goods, it is stated, are ! being represented as of Dutch manufac- ; tiire, but a member of the English .China '• Manufacturers' Association said that no ' such china, was manufactured in Holland. The price of the German goods is fully , SO per cent, under the cost of local production and this in Longton, the real '-. home of English china. "If it ib true, as has often been said," : said a pottery manufacturer, "that Gor- '■ many has been accumulating vast etocks j of<.manufactured goods during the war, ; it is possible she has been passing them | over the Dutch border in exchange for butter and cheese. In that case, the prospect of wholesale 'dumping' from, that ■ quarter, added to the certainty of sovero direct German competition in home and overseas markets, will ' create a serious situation for the English china manufacturer."