COUNCIL AND INDUSTRY
British Official Wireless.
RUGBY, 19th September.
'•■ A' group of prominent' industrialists (ithose ■ chairman is Sir William Morris, She motor manufacturer, propose to establish a National Council of Industry and Commerce to further by all possible means the economic and financial prosperity of Great Britain. A letter convening the lousiness men's meeting says the purpose of the council will be "to secure the adoption of proper measures for protecting the cause of Empire trade by every possible means, and to achieve in our own time some of the blessings which will ijow ■from the concerted will of nations o£ a'united British Commonwealth."
' The signatures include those of Sir \Voodman Burbidge, chairman of Harj:ods; Sir Hugh Cunliffe'-Owen, chairman of /British-American" Tobacco Company; liord; Melchett, chairman Imperial Chemicals;. Sir Telix Pole, chairman of Associated Electrical Industries; Mr. Gibson .Tarvie, managing director: of the United Dominions Trust; and Sir Hugo Hirst, Canadian:; General Electric Company.
The council aim to be entirely free from political parties.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 12
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164COUNCIL AND INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 12
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