TRADE PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 9

TRADE PROBLEMS

THE JAPANESE CAMPAIGN BIG MEETING IN MANCHESTER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 23. A meeting of 2,000 people at Manchester, organised by seven Conservative members of tho House of Commons to protest against the inadequacy of the Government’s attitude toward the Japanese cotton competition, adopted a resolution demanding immediate denunciation of the Anglo-Japan-ese most-favoured-nation treaties and persuasion of the dominions to do likewise. Mr Shackleton Bailey declared that the Japanese had no intention of coming to terms. Their delegation had been six months in England without instructions from Tokio. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS i LONDON, January 24. In the course of a speech Mr Ramsay MacDonald said:—“We have to protect the home market, in which the Government is fully aware that unless protection is taken up by men of energy, determination, and enterprise, protection may make stagnant waters. I think it is time the cotton industry showed more aliveness, accompanied -by co-ordination and efficiency in production and marketing.” JAPANESE ACTIVITY NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHILE. SANTIAGO (Chile), January 23. Japan to-day intensified the drive for bigger trade with South America, when a Japanese commercial commission, representing fifty industries, began visiting Government officials, authorities, and business quarters in an attempt to establish an immediate exchange of goods and raw materials.