WARNING IN U.S.A.
REDUCTION IN TARIFF ON WOOL TEXTILES
NEW YORK, March 22.
A message from Springfield, Massachusetts, states that the president of the American Woollen Company,, Mr. Pendleton, has sent a letter to the reciprocal trade agreement committee at Washington warning it that a reduction in the tariff on wool textiles could be met only by a drastic reduction ir! the present wage scale of textile workers.
He pointed out that reductions granted to Britain would be automatically granted to the whole of the most favoured nations list, and that wages paid abroad were below those paid in America by between 66 and 96" per cent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 9
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