POST-WAR TRADE

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16257, 6 July 1918, Page 9

POST-WAR TRADE

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(Australian and N.Z. Cabl« Aisecialiou.)

LONDON, July 3. " The International Parliamentary Conference adopted a resolution itt

favour of common copyright, patent and trade-mark rights in all the Allied countries.

Another resolution demanded that the hours of labour and industrial conditions should be regulated so as to conduce to the health of the employees. ' The Commercial Committee of the British Parliament submitted a report foreshadowing a < renewed outbreak of commercial hostilities by the Germans directly after the war. Unless vigorbus economic measures wbre now concerted tho Allies would again suffer. Tho devilish and dishonest practices of kultur in warfare had their counterpart in kultur in trade. The German schools of commerce inculcated the principle that any rascality Was permissible if it Advanced, the of th«* Fatherland. When peace* was signed a general commercial and csconotnie boycott must turn out to be impracticable or inadvisable. In any case, in tingeneral interests of humayjjjL-tnis ooult) c n5t J be ehforced beydnd a very limited.' number of years. The alternative was restrictive regulation, in which way each Allied country should have preferential tra^iriband a differential tariff. Mittel Enroth would retaliate, but the Allies wfi": joinod the Preferential* League milprepare to face tho utmost ~ Mittc | Europa could do; The Allies should:: (1) Provide for their own require ments the essential raw materials a>.c • , the key of industries, (2) Provide similarly for neutrals. (3) If there were any Burplus, eneniin might be considered, but, Of course, fit higher price?. Mr Steel Maitland said that all hopcv' that when some years had passed tifi'-i the war it might be possible for Ger * many to tome back to the society"' cations, but they must take steps i' .. meet tha plans Germany was making.