EMPIRE TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 12

EMPIRE TRADE

HOW LABOUR CAN HELP. . j . • LEADER’S APPEAL. Six 1 hundred delegates cordially I cheered every phase of Mr Ben Tillett’s I presidential address at the trade Union Council Congress at Belfast, when ; the veteran leader appeared to trades unionists to assist in the development of inter-imperial trade. Emphasising the importance or trade unionism in assisting inter-im-perial trade, Mr Tillett said that the trade union movement must take full account of the great changes in world economics during the last decade. “We must organise, like America,” ho declared. “The British Empire has greater I potential home consumption than the United States, including a larger pop- | ulation, vaster territories, and greater j ; natural resources. Despite the striv- _ i iligs for international peace, we do i not hear any suggestions for inter- „ ! national economic peace. A tariff | harrier is being raised, and therefore | trade unionism must give very close attention to proposals for tlio organ- | isation of the British Commonwealth i as an economic unit. Our race and || blood people great dominions. InterImperial trade is growing, but not || yet sufficiently quickly to recompense A Britain for tlio loss of other markets. || It is essential, in tho workers’ inter- §j est, that all avenues should be ex- j§§ plored to increase inter-imperial trade, which would be possible without economic warfare between Europe and jjj America, while being of great advan- gg tage to our fellow-workers throughout the Empire.”