EMPIRE MARKETS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21951, 12 May 1933, Page 9

EMPIRE MARKETS

FOREIGN EXPLOITATION UNFAIR COMPETITION (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 10. In connection with Japanese competition 25,000 persons have signed a petition in Manchester pressing Parliament to take prompt and effective measures to prevent the exploitation of Empire markets by foreigners manufacturing on a low standard of living, and making it impossible for Britons to compete.

i'he Manchester Guardian said: Close study by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce reveals that Japanese competition in the Australian market is very alarming. Australia at present is Lancashire's second biggest market. A special committee has compiled exhaustive and constructive reports which are being conveyed to the Government.

SHIPPING DISABILITIES,

PROBLEM OF SUBSIDIES.

LONDON, May 10.

The Hon. Alexander Shaw (chairman of the P. and O. Company), addressing the Mission for Seamen, referring to British shipping disabilities in competing with the subsidised ships of the United States, France, Japan, and Italy, said that some of these were carrying on active economic warfare against the British mercantile marine. This had now gone the length of a subsidised attack on our sea-carrying trade between one dominion and another. Every country which was foremost in the attack on our, interdominion trade prohibited British ships from carrying a single passenger or an ounce of cargo between her ports. So far the British Empire had only met this attack with a policy of passive submission. No wonder unemployment '• overclouded our seaports.