ONE-SIDED FREE TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 5

ONE-SIDED FREE TRADE

—— GLASGOW AND IRELAND. The effects of a one-sided free trade between the Irish Free State and-Gias-

gow are complained of in a letter just received by. an Auckland business man The writer is the manager- of a large shirt factory in Glasgow, and he attributes the present bad condition of the trade to unfair competition from the Free State., ' ‘ “The Irish Free State can send over shirts'to Glasgow at prices we cannot look at,” he says. “We are'bound-to

conform to the wages fixed by the shirtmaking Trade Board, but in the Free State wages are not regulated by any such board, and as they can live much more cheaply there, as there is still that class of employer who unscrupulously takes advantage of , the ; worker,' they can flood our country. with a certain class of goods at prices far below ours. And yet the same Irish Free •State''puts

. an import tax on our manufactured > goods. In short, they won’t let us get i, a living out of their country or in our , own. There must come a change very • soon. Wo must be allowed to sell to our own folks anyway.”