DIFFICULT PROBLEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 2

DIFFICULT PROBLEMS

COMPETENT REVIEW TO BE OBTAINED. • * (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, .July 15. Tlie President of the Board of Trade, Mr William Graham, in a speech at Edinburgh, said that the immediate problem in British trading industries turned upon the export trade. Coal exports were better than for some time, but were well behind pre-war totals. One of the most difficult problems that • the Government had to face was how to secure that drastic internal reorganisation that was required. How to maintain peace in industry, especially when the existing agreements began to expire in December of the present year, was another problem. Cotton., like iron and steel, would ho the subject ( of immediate review by the Government and, in the course of a few days ho hoped to announce to Parliament the form that those inquiries would take. There would be no delay. The whole object was to get a competent but expeditious review, and to use all the material 'bearing on every aspect of the cotton, iron and steel industries offered, either by employers or trade unions, whatever might be their view of the future organisation of industry. Those steps were essential in schemes to restore the value of the Home market, and to give Britain renewed chances in the exports market,.