BRITISH INDUSTRIES
DIFFICULT PROBLEMS
TASK FOR GOVERNMENT
British Official Wireless.
RUGBY, 15th July
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, in a speech at Edinburgh, said that the immediate problems in British trading industries turned upon the export trade. Coal exports were better than for some time, but were well behind pre-war totals. One of the most difficult problems the Government had to face was how to secure that drastic internal reorganisation that was required. How to maintain peace in tho industry, especially when the existing agreements began to expire in December of the present year, was another problem. Cotton, like iron and steel, would be the subject of an immediate review by the Government, and in the course of a few days he hoped to announce to Parliament the form that these inquiries would take. There would be no delay. The whole object was to get a competent but expeditious review and to use all material bearing on every aspect of the cotton, iron, and steel industries, offered either by employers or trade unions. Whatever might be their view of the future organisations of industry, these steps were essential in schemes to restore the value of the home market and to give Britain renewed chances in the export market.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1929, Page 9
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