INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONFERENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1655, 22 October 1919, Page 6

INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONFERENCE.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. L LONDON, Oct. -20. i The Times states that at the opening of the International Trade Conierenee the delegates were informed that.topics for discussion will be credits, finance,' chemicals, coal, foodstuffs, metals, petroleum, textiles, reconstruction, supplies,' shipping, and the formation ol a jperinanqnt international business mcn.sj organisation.;■"-'•; .. ~ Ajl-ed Bedford, president of the Standard Oil Co., said: We are informed because of the high prices and rate of exchange prevailing in the -United States, that it may he necessary lor Some countries to buy elsewhere, but the question of credits and exchange are essentially hankers' questions. We wish you to consider them with our bankers, who earnestly desire to solve the complicated situation. One ol ■ ; tlic methods wherchy the future financial co-operation between .Europe and America can bo realised is by Americans investing money in European' enterprises.

THE BRITISH ATTITUDE.

Received October 22. 8.55 a.m. ... NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-. \t the Trade Conference hold in Atlantic Ci'tv, Sir James Sampson, director of the Bank of Liverpool, in a speech/ said' we do not come to ask help from any organisation. We asl; only that no obstruction be placed in the way of normal business transactions. No Government in England would stand whiclr contemplated for a moment any weakening in regard to the payment of our debts; The crisis in tho labour situation, he said had passed. The labouring classeswere tired'of strikes and the employers were realising that the workers must have, larger remuneration and a greater share m the management. The producing power ot the national industries was approximately equal to pre-war days. _