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WORLD COTTON
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European Industry And Japanese Competition
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Mr. Otto Bankwitz, a leading Austrian cotton Spinner. in a striking report on. "The causes of the crisis in the European cotton industry." presented to the Inter- national Cotton Congress here to- day, said: "Japän has surpassed not only England but the whole of the chlet European producing countries. for in the short space of two years Japanese exports have increased by 540,000,000 square yards. whila European exports have decreased by 450.000.000 square yards”
and departmental executives have racked their brains day and night to d'évise new formulae' to satisfy the clamour for farm relief. Plat- form pledges at the opening of
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Presidential campaigns have bound our greut parties to com- mitments which demanded action. It is hardly necessary to emphasise the fact that the real remedy for the obvious disease of an impover- ishing inequality for the farmen lay in a sound revision of our tariff methods. With a political religion' nurtured for so many years to op- pose.the growing trend towards i nationlism by such a radical step. particularly in these times."
Mr Bankwitz suggested remed- les for the depression in the cotton industry of Eurone and put for ward a plan for a convention of Mr. Revere reviewed all the plans European spinners. He suggests and schemes adopted by the Unit that each country should be or-
mect ed States Government to ganised in a detalled manner with the position of the cotton farmer a view to individuu European or- by maintaining cotton prices but he ganiseed in a detailed manner with ¦ pointed out that probably the a view to individual European or- greatest obstacle to the success of ganisation. "We must abandorį attempting impose planned any idea of remedy by the increas-economy idy in the fact that while ing of exports," continued Mr. Bankwitz. "Export trade has be- come unprofitable It has become asource of loss; we simply cannot adhere to the prices dictat- ed by Japan This is all the more reasor for us in Europe to see to is that we have controlled produr- tion and all the more reason for
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Intelligent, foresight might solve one social problem that "speetne solution generated new problems that arose to plague them. "While it is possible," he concluded, "to contend that too much of the onus for our decrease in our cotton ex- ports may have been placed upon cotton programme, it would carrying out the internal organisa-be futile to deny that our frankly tion of the spinning industry In nationalistic methods have been a the individua: European countries. conributing factor. Tariff policies as I advocated at the last Congress. must be revised, and perhaps those The progress recorded during the of the United States most of all. last two years in this direction is not satisfactory We have made "practically no advance in the or
ganisations which were already in existence in 1933. Not the sight- est sign of European co-operation
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"Why have the cotton mills in Various countries not estab. lished internal order? Do they walt prefer
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are brought to order by State action? The selfishness so often practised by Individual firms ought to disappear in the face of the most" serious problems by which the whole of Europe has been con
fronted during recent years. If you will create in all the European countries organisatiers to distrl- bute in a fair manner the demand of the country among the individ- ual spinning mills, if a reliable control of production is establish- ed to adapt the production coun- try's requirements, and if you take the further step advocated by me -to create the convention of Euro- pean spiners-then you will see that the crisis in Europe has been overcome. The solution of he European cotton position to-day Ites solely in Eystematic organisa
tion." "
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"FUTURE OF OVERSEAS
CHINESE
Nanking, May 21,
The future of overseas Chinese
wao hitherto have led an easy life, assured of lurcrative employment und prosperity, no longer presents
the same rosy prospects, Mr. Chew Chi Kang, vice-chairman of the Overseas Affair Commission, em- phasized at the weekly Sun Yat Seni memorial service at the Cen- tral Kuo-Min Tang Headquarters this morning.
JUNE 8, 1935.
TO-MORROW'S CHURCH
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Whit Sunday
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
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The following are the forthebm- ing services at the Catholic Cathe tral. Catne Road:- June 9.-Whit Sunday:---
MORNING SERVICES " 1st Mass at 6. 2nd Mass at 8 with "sermon in.
Chinese.
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3rd Mass at 10.30-Solemn Panti- Acial Mass with sermon a English.
EVENING SERVICE
At 3.30-Solemn Vesters and
Benediction,
Jupe 10-Whit Monday-General Comfrmation at 7.30 a.I. June 11-From 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.---
Holy Hour.
June 12-Ember Day-Abstinence
Day.
June 13-Feast of St. Antony.
Solmn High Mass at 7.30. On week days Mass at 6, 7 and
7.30.
"GOD BLESS OUR
NOBLE DUKE”
They are now being confronted with three acute problems, Mr. Chow continued. Firstly, their economic well-being is seriously
The service at the Chapel of the threatened by the world-wide busi- Savoy, at which was unveiled the ness depression, their business King George V. window, presented having in a large number of cases by. Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, Chan- either failed or gone from bad to cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, worse. Secondly, the life of over-contained many reminders that seas Chinese is being made more the King is the Duke of Lancaster. difficult on account of the general The congregation prayed for before our cotton exports can reach anti-Chinese policies of the varl-Our Sovereign Lord King George, their normal or oldtime proporous governments abroad. Thirdly. Duke of Lancaster." The service local foreign authorities are in begad and ended with the singing places adopting a polley of nation of the National Anthem, the open- alization and absorption of Chinese ing words of which as it is tradi- residents.
tionally sung every Sunday at the chapel are:
tlor.s.
JUTE FIBRES IN COTTON
Cotton spinners have for years. been troubled with the presence of foreign fibre, particularly jute, in Egyptian cotton, and experiments in utilising cotton bagging entire- ly, instead of Jute, were reported upon by Dr. W. Lawrence Balls. the chief cotton technologist to the Egyptian Government.
Dr. Balls, in his paper, stated that the logical thing to do would" be to use nothing but cotton, whe- ther as bags in the cotton"fields. string, country bale covers, or as export bale covers
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In conclusion, Mr. Chow express et the nope that the Central Gov- ernment pay due attention to these three problems so that overscas Chinese abroad may once more enjoy their previous rights of living the "ant carrying on their accupations more in peace.→ things finited, Press (by mail)
In conclusion, Dr. Balls drew attention to the fact that the change-over from Jute to cotton handling would result in the destruction of a large portion of the hessian-merchanting industry in Egypt. But once that was done It would help to put Egyptian cotton in a class by itself for fine spinning.
He drew comparisons between the cost of using all-cotton cover- ings at all stages of the handling. of the crop. and taking it for granted that this would abolish foreign Abrous material from the export bale of Egyptian cotton Tests had proved that when spin- ning conditions were very good and the counts only moderately fine there would
Frank Nasmith and Mr. breaks per 100 spindle hours as Walter English in a paper on pro- said ling. The increased cost of cotton compared with all-cotton hand-gress in textile machinery
TEXTILE MACHINERY “
Mr. be two extra
handling could be estimated at 55. AMERICAN COTTON POLICY
per bale. It would appear that "Mr. C. T. Revere, of New York. the substitution of cotton handing 逗 wellknown cotton authority in for Jute handling would only just the United States, in a paper on pay itself in 120's at the spinning "The position of American cotton machine. In coarser counts the in the world to-day." said: "Mem- advantage would seem to be with bers of our Senate and House of Jute handling. but the case for Representatives have sponsored ill-cotton covering was much stronger considered legislation in the hope than the elementary costing show- of bolstering up political prestige, ed
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there had been a number of in- teresting developments in cotton, machinery during the past years and Lancashire téxtile machinery manufacturers had again been prominent in new In- ventions and devices. They point- ed out that these had been mostly concerned with adaptations to and modications of existing types of machines rather than with the introduction of new machinés em- bodying, revolutionary changes in principle. One point stressed was that machinists continued to pay a considerable amount. of atten- tion to bale opening and cleaning machines with a view to produc- ing still closer and more regular laps and improving the bloom of cotton.
Attention was drawn to the comparatively new process of spin- ning staple rayon Abre, but no great developments or progress had been made, owing apparently to lack of interest and also lack of knowledge of the value of this particular form of viscose rayon and also from the lack of kriow- ledge of the best methods of 'deal- ing with the raw material An important factor was, that colton machinery was used with only minor adjustments and modifies. tions.
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God save our Lord the King. God less our noble Duke,
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Sure." said the butcher.
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