FOREIGN COMPETITION
WOOL AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIES TRADE 'BAD IU BRITAIN WAGE AGREEMENT TERMINATED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, September 18. The ‘Weekly Despatch’ states Out the employers’ section of the National Wool and Allied Textile Industrial Council has announced the termination of its wages agreement, owing to bad trade, due to foreign competition. The trades union leaders have twice opposed the Bradford manui'acturers’ ai plication for a protective duty to keep out German goods, jmrehases of winch have increased in an alarming manner during the last eighteen months. The employers now insist that both duty and a reduction in wages arc essential. There is thus the possibility of a hitter and costly struggle. Over 250,000 workers are involved. —Sydney ‘ Sun Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 5
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120FOREIGN COMPETITION Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 5
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