GERMAN TRADE ATTACK

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 4

GERMAN TRADE ATTACK

TARIFF WALL BROKEN. BRITISH MANUFACTURERS RUINED. A story of the evil effects of the dumping of German goods in England was told by Mr H. Winwood, who has been in the glass trade near Birmingham for 25 years. He recently arrived in Sydney. Mr Winwood’ said that up to two years ago he had a thriving business. “Now,” he added, “I am comparatively penniless. My disastrous position and that of hundreds of other glassware manufacturers in England is due entirely to the dumping of Gerpian and other foreign-made goods on the English manket. Foreign competition has ruined thousands of those who were alleged to have won the war.” It was pointed out to Mr Winwood that in Australia, there was an antidumping scheme under the control of the Federal Government. He looked politely dubious. “Well,” heconceded, “it might be all right, but it will hare to be a stiff Act to save your local industries from what is likely to come to them. The rate of exchange is the difficulty. Like Australia, England has a tariff against foreign goods, but it has proved to foe Useless.” How is it, Mt Winwood wns asked, that the people of England can reconcile themselves to a position which means trade prosperity to the enemy and starvation, to thousands of homesavers ? ‘ ‘There is no patriotism in that direction,” was the reply. “The people in England buy the cheapest article, no matter where it oomes from, and local manufacturers are heluiless. Manufacturers have been rubbed out, and, in many oases, if their workmen offered to work for next to nothing, they oould not compete with the dumping of the foreigner and his undercutting of prioes.”