“A TRUCE OF GOD.”
NECESSITY IN INDUSTRY. THE FUTILITY OF FIGHTING. LONDON, July 19. “There is need of a new spirit between employers and 1 employees. I believe the nation’s mood tends toward turning over a new leaf,” said: Sir Percy Wood house, president, addressing the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Industry required a “truce of God,” and a cessation of senselessfighting without advantage to either side, he added. Sir Percy dene id 1 that Lanca.shire’s sun of prosperity was setting, despite the increase of spindles in Japan and India. The commanding position was still Lancashire’s, which was' finding new methods of development, ospeciy ally of artificial silk. Britain was now exporting 50,000,000 square yards of mixed artificial silk and cotton annuallv.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1926, Page 8
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