UNIONS DIFFER SHARPLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 9

UNIONS DIFFER SHARPLY

TEXTILES AND SAFEGUARDING JOINT APPLICATION PLAN (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Wednesday. At a joint meeting of textile employers and trades union delegates at Bradford, a resolution was passed in favour of a joint application for safeguarding duties, mainly on dress goods, to 6s a yard. The “Yorkshire Observer” and the “Daily Herald’* emphasise the fact that the unions had acute differences on the subject. Saturday’s motion was only carried by 15 votes to nine; each union having a single vote irrespective of its membership. The Amalgamated Society of Dyers and the National Union of Textile Workers, with an aggregate membership of 100,000, opposed the motion, and seven small unions, with a membership of under 2,000, supported it. The Safeguarding Joint Committee, a trade organisation, reports that the presen conditions in the cotton spinning trade are handicapping Lancashire’s foreign trade. It recommen&p large amalgamations of the mills, which should co-operate in order to develop the overseas trade and to effect economies in the purchase of cotton, the sale of yarns and the disposal of waste products.