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graphic Address "FRESHFIELDS STOCK LONDON.
rephone 7780 CENTRAL.
448
New Bank Buildings,
31. Old Jewry, (E.C.2)
Edwin FROMFIELA LLD
Edwin Hanson FansHFHELD James WHAM FRESHMELO
SIR WILLIAM HärgnKAVEL LEDGE, MART
3. 1.3
24th July 1917.
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We wish Jour Department to know that owing to shortage of
staff the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank desire to be relieved of the
duties of representing the Textile Alliance at Hong Kong or Singapore. Negotiations are now proceeding to secure other representatives whose
names will be submitted to your Department in due course.
Mr. Patterson, the President of the Textile Alliance, is
now in this country and desires to take this opportunity to offer the following åbservations upon the reasons that make it necessary for the Alliance to be represented at ports of shipment in British terri-
tory.
follows:-
The occasion for making these observations may be stated as
The United States Government have advised other trades,
which the Textile Alliance are not, and do not wish to be, concerned in, to adopt the system of organisation or control initiated by the
Textile Alliance. Steps are now being taken in America, under the auspices of the United States Government, to organise such Alliances
for other trades on that basis but without representation at ports
of shipment; and it is anticipated that these Alliances will eventu-
ally submit to His Majesty's Government proposals for agreement similar, with this exception, to that which regulates the operation
of the Textile Alliance.
Mr. Patterson has been consulted by the United States Govern-
ment in an advisory capacity in these organisations and perceiving that some misapprehension exists in the United States as to the necessity of Alliances of this character being represented in British territory he has made the following representations to the United States Authorities concerned upon this subject and thinks it may be