and Tra Cotton Spinners' ferred to the competition of Japan India and the East generally and from local productions. They expressed the opinion that the present difficulty and absence of bulk trade were due mainly to the high price of raw material and impoverishment of the main consuming countries. They considered that the Tritish commercial supremacy in cotton-cods could not be seriously challenged with reduced taxation Jand longer working hours.
On behalf of the Manchester!
Cotton Association, it was suggest regards raw cotton that These cottons: receive a proper status development would be to that extent.—Reuter.
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