GERMAN DUMPING

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1923, Page 4

GERMAN DUMPING

LONDON, Juno lil. A crusade in favour of all-liritisli boots is being launched to bring home to the public their superiority over foreign boots. Owing to the dumping of Dorman leather in this country German tanneries are working at full pressure while there is hardly one tannery in this country not working half-time, and many are closing down. Four of the largest, tnnnel-ie< in Northamptonshire have practically closed down, while in the boot Iraile almost every factory is mi short lime. .Mr. \V. P. truss, chairman of the !.i illter Hod ion of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce, said day:--T; arc 'is motile evidence that the German aw rr,: to ruin Ihe British leather industry. Hoot maim facto refs will lie ,'n a ic-rilons nositinn if tic l British lc-the • industry is extinguished, as nur foreign rivals will then put np th dr nrices to recoil*) llionise!vves for tli, I; w pros they have charged to capt rice our t rode. d" e prii ■ (|imtcd for calfskins in Berlin was AVI per Fnglislt pound, while the i’erp spcinlmg place for Filglish skins in. this country was 13d per lb. Germany can out-bid British manui'aetur rs in luiving from ether countries. A*.--. A, F. Tchtitl, president cf the Northampton Boot cud Shoe Manufacturers’ Association, said unless some chi k was placed upon German competition they would begin to dump tlieir s'trolns footwear here by opening retail -hops, as they had done in ibdb'iil. wivro thousands of shoe worker, had I c-n thrown out of employment .