SWEATED LABOUR.
RESTRICTIONS PROPOSED.
ON IMPORTED GOODS
SUGGESTION TALKED OUT. d Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI Received March 19, 9 a.m. LONDON, March IS. In the House of Commons, Mr Grattan Doyle moved a resolution that it is net desirable to continue the unrestricted importation of foreign manufactures made under sweated conditions, which was detrimental to the interests of British workmen, and a contributory factor to unemployment. He referred to a rumour thsjt a syndicate was being started .in. Glasgow for the purpose of importing German coal at cheaper rates than it could be procured in Britain.
Mr Dalton (Lafjour) moved an amendment, declaring the interests of British workmen cannot lie helped by tariff causes, and the consequences cf sweating at home and abroad are indivisible, and should be dealt with as a whqle. He declared in favour of development of international labour conventions all the world over. Air Crawford described the resolution iis naked protectionist propaganda. He declared that the Liberals were prepnred to, join action on the lines of the Washington Convention, particularly through the League of Nations. The amendment was defeated by 240 votes to 137, and the resolution was talked out. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 March 1925, Page 7
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