BRITAIN AND EMPIRE
* DIMINISHING IMPORTANCE LABOUR LEADER’S VIEW t ? By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright d PARIS, Tuesday. ,£k Labour leaders of 26 nations, repree senting 13,000,000 workers, attended the e opening of the conference of the International Federation of Trades Unions, known as the Amsterdam International. The president, Mr. A. A. Purcell, member of the House of Commons for Forest of Dean, said old capitalist ff countries were in a state of depression. - The importance of Britain in the 11 British Empire diminished from day to e day. L t Britian before the war was a centre > of manufacture and her products were d imposed on the Dominions. Britain now ■- was an old-fashioned workshops in a world of rival workshops.—A. and N. Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 1
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