SAFEGUARDING INDUSTRIES
TEXTILE TRADES’ SUPPORT.
(Australian Press Association;) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
LONDON, December 5. The joint meeting of textile employers and trade unions at Bradford » passed a resolution in favour of a joint application for safeguarding duties, I mainly dress goods, to six shillings per yard. ’ ■ C The “Yorkshire Observer and “Daily Herald” emphasise the Union’s acute differences on the subject. Saturday’s motion was only carried by 15 to 9, each Union having a single vote, irrespective of membership. The Amalgamated Society of Dyers’ National Union of Textile Workers, with an aggregate membership of 100,-. 000, opposed the motion, while seven small unions, with a membership of under 2000, supported safeguarding. The Joint Committee of the trade organisation reports that present financial conditions in the cotton spinning industry are handicapping Lancashire’s foreign trade, and recommends a large amalgamation of mills co-operating m order to develop overseas trade, and effect economies ■ in. the purchase of cotton, sale of yarns, and the disposal of waste produce.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 5
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