TRADE AFTER THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 7

TRADE AFTER THE WAR.

COMBATING GERMAN ADIS. PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS. A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 4. Tito International Parliamentary Conference adopted a resolution in favour of common copyright, patent, and trade mark rights in all allied countries. Another resolution demanded that the I hours of labour and industrial conditions should be regulated to conduce to the health of employees. The Commercial Committee of the British Parliament submitted a report foreshadowing the renewal of the outbreak of commercial hostilities by the Germans directly after the war, stating that unless vigorous economic measures were now concerted, the allies would again suffer for tho devilish and dishonest practices of " Kultured" warfare, which had their counterpart in " Knlturcd" trade. German schools of commerce inculcated the princ pie that any rascality was permissible if ii advanced the interests of the Fatherland. When peace was signed a, general commercial and economic boycott must turn out to he impracticable or inadvisable. In any case, in the general interests of humanity, it conld not bo enforced beyond a very limited number of years. The alternative was restrictive regulation, in which way each allied conntry should have preferential trading and differential tariff. Mittel Europa would retaliate, but the allies who joined the preferential league must prepare to face the utmost Mittel Europa could do. The allies should firstly provide for their own requirements in essentia! raw materials . and key industries, secondly for neutrals, | thirdly if there were any surplus their I enemies might be considered, but, of I course, at higher prices.

Sir A. D. Steel Mart-land said all Imped that when somo years had passed after the war it might be possible for Germany to come back to the society of nations, but we must take steps to meet the plans Germany was making.

BOYCOTT BY SAILORS.

APPROVAL IN FRANCE.

PARIS, July 4. The French Maritime League, under the presidency of M. Miller, former Minister for War, pay s a tribute to the British sailors' decision to boycott German sea transport as a powerful economy weapon which the allies ought to adopt