§ Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that employers in the glove fabric trade, who spent considerable sums of money on machinery, extension of premises, and other improvements during the War, now have their machines standing idle and are obliged to dismiss their workers, and that business in this trade is at an absolute standstill owing to German competition, which operates unfairly as a result of the low rate of exchange; and what steps he proposes to take to remedy this state of affairs?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEMy attention has been drawn to the position in the trade mentioned by my Noble Friend, but I cannot add anything to the answer on a similar matter which I gave him on the 17th November.