GIVE AND TAKE IN TRADE.

Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 12

GIVE AND TAKE IN TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Manufacturers generally recognise the constant and loyal support you have given local industries. To-day more than at any other time there is the realisation that we must keep in mind the other fellow’s point of view as well as our own, and your leading article under the above heading is appro priate and timely. In view of the accepted need of close and friendly relationship between the Mother Country and ourselves it is sornewhat disturbing that Mr Paish should feel called upon to protest against evidence given before the Tariff Commission casting reflections on British trading methods, reflections which 1 am sure are as surprising to local traders as they are to the British representative. So far as any difference in Governmental standards is concerned we are justly entitled to make comparisons before’the commission, but unfortunately it has gone beyond this. The criticism of British trading methods, coming as it does from local manufacturers desirous of capturing the trade, is both indiscreet and unpleasant. Mr Paish plainly indicates the concern with which such criticisms wil' bo received, and 1 think it is desirable that local manufacturers should dissociate themselves from any evidence that casts aspersions on the integrity of the British manufacturer.—l am, etc., Manufacturer. September 18.