TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1928, Page 5

TEXTILE INDUSTRY

SAFEGUARDING DUTIES.

A JOINT RECOMMENDATION. UNIONS NOT UNANIMOUS. United Press Association- —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Dec. 5. A joint meeting of textile employers and- trade unions at Bradford on Saturday passed a resolution in favour of a joint- application for safeguarding duties, mainly on dress goods, to 6s a yard. , ~ Tlie “Yorkshire Observer” and the “Daily Herald” emphasise the unions acute differences on the subject. Saturday's motion was carried by only jo votes to 9, each union having a single vote irrespective of membership. Iho Amalgamated Society of Dyers and the National Union of Textile Workers having an aggregate membership of lCO,(X)Or opposed the motion while seven small unions with a membership of under 2000 supported safeguarding. The joint committee on trade organisation reports the present financial conditions in the cotton-spinning industry are handicapping Lancashire s foreign trade, and recommends large amalgamation’ of mills and co-operation in order to develop overseas trade and effect economies .in the purchase of cotton, the sale of yarns and the disposal of waste products.