SAFEGUARDING AND WAGE REDUCTIONS
WOOLLEN INDUSTRY. HEAVY DECLINE IN OVERSEAS TRADE.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday 7.0 p.m LONDON, Jan. 19. In justfying claims for both safeguarding duties and a reduction in wages in certain sections of its industry, tho Woollen and Worsted Federation has issued statistics revealing a heavy decline in overseas trade in both tops and fabrics The respective exports of woollen tissues in millions of square yards to Australia was 12.89 in 1913, but only 7.13 last year. The respective figures in worsted are 17.78 and 1.54. The Now Zealand figures are: Tissues 3.97 and 2.42; -worsteds I.CG and .BQ. The operatives’ union has declined to entertain any reduction in wages.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 21 January 1929, Page 6
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