TRADE JOTTINGS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 January 1929, Page 6

TRADE JOTTINGS.

(Per Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, January 1

Mr Philip Snowden, writing in a Labour magazine, describes the National Federation of Textile Unions’ motion in favour of safeguarding wool and textiles as “a piece of clever fooling, intended to damn while professing to praise.”

The Federation faced the threat of reduced wages unless they supported the demand for safeguarding. They made a pretence of falling in with the tile Federation’s committee and conducted an enquiry with impassive faces, the employers not suspecting that they were being “led up the garden,” he asserts.

“If I were not convinced that the committee had drafted the report with their tongues in their cheeks,” he writes, “I should be compelled to revise my high opinion of common sense and cuteness of mv fellow countrymen, particularly the officials of the Federation.